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October 26, 2020 by Wren Smith

Virtual Discovery Station: Native Tree Series, Part 3 – Spicebush

Spicebush (Lindera benzoin) If you want to spice up your landscape, plant this native understory small bushy tree and the spicebush butterflies may grace you with their presence. Spicebush, along […]

Filed Under: Virtual Discovery Stations Tagged With: Native Trees, Spicebush

October 13, 2020 by Wren Smith

Virtual Discovery Stations: Native Trees

In this eleven part series, Volunteer Naturalist shares history, lore, and information about some of Kentucky’s finest native tree species. Each of these species can be found here at Bernheim. […]

Filed Under: Plants Tagged With: Black Walnut, Native Trees, Pawpaw, Poplar, Sassafras, Spicebush, Tulip Poplar

April 26, 2019 by Wren Smith

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 […]

Filed Under: 90th, Bernheim at 90, Homepage Blog Feed Tagged With: butterfly, Caterpillar, Edible Garden, larva, monarch, Pawpaw, Spicebush, Swallowtail

June 20, 2016 by Wren Smith

Tales from the Bent Twig Trail: Slow and Steady Does It

My year of writing this blog is ending. It’s been a wonderful journey, providing me the opportunity to slow down, pay attention, and share with you some of my discoveries […]

Filed Under: Blog, Tales from Bent Twig Tagged With: Black-Throated Blue Warblers, bloodroot, box turtle, mayapple, Pawpaw, Spicebush, white slant-wing moth, white snakeroot, woodthrush

June 13, 2016 by Wren Smith

Trails from the Bent Twig Trail: The Cycle Continues

They’re back!  The spicebush butterflies have been laying their eggs on the spicebush, Lindera benzoin and sassafras trees Sassafras albidum on the Bent Twig Trail and elsewhere. Some of those eggs have […]

Filed Under: Blog, Tales from Bent Twig Tagged With: Bent Twig, butterflies, butterfly, caterpillars, Sassafras, Spicebush, spicebush swallowtail

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