The city of Dover becomes a Monarch City
By Delia Trenbath Reader Contributor Congratulations to the city of Dover for becoming a “Monarch City” — the second community in the state of Idaho to proudly carry that title. The Dover City Council...
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Building butterfly waystations
By Ben Olson Reader Staff By the time Idaho had adopted the monarch butterfly as its state insect in 1992, the migratory insects were already starting to grow scarce in the northern part of...
Dirt-y Secrets: Spring has sprung and it’s time to plan for May flowers
By Ranel Hanson Reader Columnist “It is one of those April Days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold, when it is summer in the light and winter in the shade.” ...
Group plants milkweed at Pine Street Woods to attract threatened butterfly species
By Mary Timblin Reader Contributor When Gail Bolin presented a talk on the declining number of monarch butterflies at the East Bonner County Library last winter, she would have never guessed that she was starting...
Dirt-y secrets: in the thick of it
By Ranel Hanson Reader Columnist Hooray for August! Sun, a warm lake, berries and flowers everywhere — hooray! Little brown frogs, grasshoppers that look like butterflies when they fly, butterflies, bees of all kinds,...
