Tag: butterflies

• Pikas! Sort of…

  

  Tons of wildflowers, yay! Pika? Not so much. iNat Naturalists

  Amy Law

  August 31, 2025

  Colorado Mileposts, Science Geek Blog

  butterflies, chipmunk, Colorado, Colorado nature, flowers, hiking, nature, pika, Pika Patrol, Pika Project, sub-alpine

• Windy Mountain Shrub Ecosystem Hike

  

  With the leaf canopy of the big trees fill in and the baby Great Horned Owls fledged, my husband and I decided to take a hike in the foothills west of our house. This hike took us through the Mountain Shrub plant community — the boundary between the High Plains and the Ponderosa Pine plant…

  Amy Law

  May 17, 2025

  Colorado Mileposts, Science Geek Blog

  butterflies, carnation, gnatcatcher, jay, Lazuli bunting, legumes, mountain shrub, penstemon, sand lily, sparrow, violet, wind

• Monarch Butterflies Overwintering In Mexico

  

  I remember the day in the 1976 that I ripped open the butcher paper wrapper to the National Geographic Magazine to see the cover of the woman covered in Monarch Butterflies. She had just tracked down where they went every winter, and shared that information with researchers in Canada. For me, that moment represented was…

  Amy Law

  February 2, 2024

  Science Geek Blog

  butterflies, gardening, Mexico, milkweed, monarch, Monarch butterfly, monarch-butterflies, natural history, nature