It’s National Pollinator Week and we’re all about encouraging our native pollinator friends! Our support of our native pollinators didn’t start with the project we mentioned in our previous update on National Public Garden Week. It started with planting Green-headed Cone Flower (Rudbeckia laciniata) in the tiny garden next to […]
Monthly Archives: June 2026
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This post is the second in a special series by Backyard Butterflies co-founder and Executive Director, Lior S. Carlson. Here on the Outer Banks, where the ocean is never far — let us allure you, like a siren’s song, to come and experience something genuinely strange and beautiful in its […]
An obsessive’s guide to the creatures of darkness, transformation, and astonishing beauty I Love Moths Hello, my name is Lior S. Carlson, and I love MOTHS. Like, genuinely, enthusiastically, stay-up-until-2AM-staring-at-a-sheet-in-the-woods love moths. Over the next 14 days or so, I’ll be guest blogging all about MOTHS in anticipation and countdown […]
Today, June 3rd, is National Insect Repellant Awareness Day! Though the discussion is usually for visitors to our sunny island in summer circles around sunscreen, insect repellant is equally important! Living in the United States, we often have a skewed view of the significance on the impact of illness transmitted […]