What this garden supports in July
In season now
🐝Common Eastern Bumble Bee
Bombus impatiens
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm, Common Milkweed +2 more
🐝Two-spotted Bumble Bee
Bombus bimaculatus
Drawn to Scarlet Beebalm, Wild Bergamot
🐝Sweat Bee
Halictus ligatus
Drawn to Black-Eyed Susan
🐝Leafcutter Bee
Megachile spp.
Drawn to Black-Eyed Susan
🦋Monarch Butterfly
Danaus plexippus
Drawn to Common Milkweed, New England Aster +1 more
🦋Black Swallowtail
Papilio polyxenes
Drawn to Common Milkweed
🦋Painted Lady
Vanessa cardui
Drawn to New England Aster
🦋Red Admiral
Vanessa atalanta
Drawn to Common Milkweed, New England Aster
Likely visitors based on the plants in this garden and what’s active this month.
Who this garden brings back
Because humblebumble planted these, these named species have a place here.
At-risk status from COSEWIC and the Species at Risk Act registry in Canada, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service in the United States. Each species links to its own assessment.
- Monarch ButterflyEndangeredButterfly
A Monarch can only raise its young on milkweed. No milkweed, no Monarchs. It's that simple, and that fixable.
COSEWIC / SARA 
Rusty-patched Bumble BeeEndangeredBeeOnce common across eastern North America, now almost gone. It feeds on wild bergamot and asters, flowers any yard can grow.
COSEWIC / SARA
At a glance
- 100%
support pollinators
- 79%
feed birds
- 100%
host caterpillars
Categories overlap. A single species often supports pollinators, birds, and caterpillars at once.
More than half the plants here are larval hosts, raising the caterpillars that baby songbirds depend on.
Blooming through the year
Something is in bloom in 6 of the 7 months of the growing season.
