Inwood Butterfly Sanctuary My good friend Stephanie Coggins had been telling me about the Inwood Butterfly Sanctuary at the corner of Isham Street and Seaman Avenue. The Church of the Good Shepherd in the Inwood section of Manhattan donated its vacant corner for this project. Here, Keith de Cesare has been planting a garden filled […]
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I love butterflies and have been to many butterfly houses all over the world. Last week I was honored to have this garden visitor. There are many kinds of swallowtails including black swallowtails and spicebush swallowtails (which are also black). I believe that this is a male swallowtail. See Video Male Black Swallowtail – Courtesy
Expected Butterfly Visitors After years of gardening, it is easy to become routinized to the birds, insects and small mammals common to this area. Like so many of you I have always been entranced by our local butterflies. So far this year I have seen yellow swallowtails( Papilio glaucus – Family Papilionidae) and black spicebush
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We were walking home Shabbos morning(9-11-21) at 11:30am and passed Independence Avenue & W. 236th St. On that corner (property of PS24), there was a white-flowered buddleia attracting tens of Monarch butterflies. We went back today, Sunday morning (9-12-21), and took pictures and videos. Buddleia flowers tend to bloom and die back quickly and, I