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 […]
Bernheim Pollinators: The Yucca Moth
As children, it’s the little things that we often notice: the ants parading through a jungle of grasses, a caterpillar munching on a leaf or a spider waiting for her […]
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 […]
Beneficial Insects Exhibit
Beneficial insects are insects that pollinate trees and plant-life while they collect nectar from flowers. Insects that are predators of undesirable, destructive insects are also seen as beneficial to human […]