Who this garden brings back
Because CHanlon planted these, these named species have a place here.
Mottled DuskywingEndangeredButterfly
This endangered butterfly can only raise its young on New Jersey Tea. Plant the shrub, save the butterfly.
Monarch ButterflyEndangeredButterfly
A Monarch can only raise its young on milkweed. No milkweed, no Monarchs. It's that simple, and that fixable.
Rusty-patched Bumble BeeEndangeredBee
Once common across eastern North America, now almost gone. It feeds on wild bergamot and asters, flowers any yard can grow.
Gypsy Cuckoo Bumble BeeEndangeredBee
The bees it relies on need these same native blooms. Plant for one, and you feed both.
Eastern MeadowlarkThreatenedBird
A grassland bird losing its grasslands. Native bunchgrasses bring back the insects and cover it needs.
BobolinkThreatenedBird
A bubbling song of summer meadows, now threatened. Native grasses rebuild the habitat it raises its young in.
Barn SwallowThreatenedBird
A bird that once nested on every farm, now threatened. Native plants feed the flying insects it catches on the wing.
Canada WarblerThreatenedBird
A bright yellow warbler in decline. Native shrubs raise the caterpillars it feeds to its young.
Olive-sided FlycatcherThreatenedBird
It perches on tall spruces and sallies out to catch flying insects. Native blooms keep its prey in the air.
Bank SwallowThreatenedBird
It feeds entirely on flying insects. Every native flowering patch is more food in the air it hunts.
American Bumble BeeSpecial concernBee
It needs goldenrod and asters to fatten up before winter. The late-summer blooms most gardens are missing.
Yellow-banded Bumble BeeSpecial concernBee
A once-common bumble bee in decline. Beebalm and columbine are among its favourites.
Eastern Wood-PeweeSpecial concernBird
Its slow 'pee-a-wee' call is heard less each year. It needs the flying insects native plants support.
Transverse Lady BeetleSpecial concernBeetle
Our native ladybugs are being pushed out. Native plants give them aphids to hunt and cover to overwinter.
Black SwallowtailSpecialistButterfly
It raises its young only on plants in the carrot family. Golden Alexanders is its native one.
Spicebush SwallowtailSpecialistButterfly
Its caterpillars can grow up on almost nothing but spicebush. Plant the shrub and you'll likely meet them.
Photos: Photo by Benny Mazur, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Derek Ramsey, GFDL 1.2 · Photo by USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, public domain · Photo by Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photo by Ken Thomas, public domain · Photo by Paul Engel, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photo by Malene Thyssen, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by Mdf, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by Mike's Birds, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Photo by John, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Judy Gallagher, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Dan Pancamo, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Photo by Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by D. Gordon E. Robertson, CC BY-SA 3.0
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