The Great Backyard Bird Count is Friday! Easy Peasy — you don’t even have to leave home. There’s still time to join this fun four-day
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Recently, much has been written about Monarch butterflies and the importance of planting their host plant milkweed to help Monarchs increase their numbers. Zizotes, our native milkweed, is important to many other insects and spiders as well.
If you’re on the Rio Grande Valley Butterflies Facebook page, you’ll know how enticing it is to see what’s happening at the National Butterfly Center
The Christmas Bird Count has come and gone but there’s still plenty of fun birding activity to be had during the Valley’s winter migratory bird
I’m a window snooper — looking out — not peeping in on other people! I’m interested in what’s happening outdoors while I’m in the house.
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by Paula Parson During my youth in Hawaii, monarch butterflies were present year-round spending their entire life-cycle on the crown flower plant, a giant milkweed.