What Black and White Caterpillar Eats Carrots

Black Swallowtail Caterpillars

I received a very interesting question from a reader today through the Ask Carole feature here at Ecosystem Gardening. I love answering your questions about what’s happening in your wildlife garden, and I’ll do my best to answer each one that comes in as time is available. Thanks to all of you who have taken [...]

What Did Black Swallowtails Eat Before we Brought In Parsley, Dill, and Queen Anne’s Lace?

Last week I used a photo of a Black Swallowtail Butterfly in a post, which prompted one of my favorite Ecosystem Gardeners, Cindy Brown Ahern, to post this comment on Facebook: This is such a beautiful creature, and YOU can do something as simple as planting parsley, dill, fennel, carrots in your garden to provide [...]

Why Your Garden is so Important for Ecosystem Gardening

Habitat loss has endangered Florida Scrub Jay

Habitat Loss due to Human Action is the Number One Cause of Species Decline We humans have an extraordinary propensity for building new things: shopping centers, malls, condos, office parks, suburban subdivisions, roads, parking lots, etc. This need to have more and more is really not a great situation for the wildlife that were thriving [...]

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