Why is non-native field mustard (Brassica rapa) used for Island Marble Butterfly habitat planting instead of Menzies' pepperweed (Lepidium virginicum var. menziesii), a native brassica relative?
Island marble butterfly larvae emerge from eggs and mature through their five instar stages
View from Turtlehead Preserve, Orcas Island | Kurt Thorson In this month’s issue: Note from Angela: Our Need for [...]
[Editor's note: A regional writer, whose pen name is Elle Cee Wallace, sent this poem to Stewardship Manager Kathleen Foley Lewis [...]
Adventurous flyer "Amelia" at Frazer Preserve | Photo: Susan Vernon For the last several years, the only place in the world where [...]
Kathleen Foley tends an island marble butterfly habitat expansion plot on Frazer Homestead Preserve The rare island marble butterfly [...]
An Island Marble butterfly feeding on field mustard at American Camp | Photo: Jeff Brennan The rare and wonderful [...]
"Just add butterflies." That's what SJPT Stewardship Manager Kathleen Foley said when she saw this gorgeous bloom of Brassica and Blush [...]
Following SJPT’s 38th Annual Meeting in Friday Harbor last month, 20 SJPT members piled into a minibus and took off in [...]