Monarch butterflies have captivated imaginations and inspired creativity for generations. They are the creatures of lore … light as a feather, strong enough to travel thousands of miles using only […]
Bernheim at 90: Bringing Bernheim Home with You
Every place you visit and love becomes a part of you. You might say that those places go home with us. They become, as Bernheim’s Education Director Whitney Wurzel likes […]
Tagging Monarchs Year 2
For the second year in a row, Bernheim staff tagged monarchs on their fall migration to Mexico. 100 monarch were tagged from mid-September to mid-October in the arboretum and the […]
Meet the Viceroy, Kentucky’s state butterfly
It’s fall again, and usually at this time everyone is seeing the Monarchs on their migration south. However, there is another orange butterfly that can also be seen now and […]
Bernheim Pollinators: The Monarch Butterfly
Monarch butterflies are beautiful insects that make the thousand mile odyssey to their winter homes in Mexico each fall. The population has declined in the last decade due to habitat […]