As we head into Pollinator Week, we appreciate all that pollinators do. Flies, bats, birds, bees, butterflies, wasps and many other organisms do the daily work of pollination, keeping our world so lush. But they do feel the combined pressures of habitat loss, pollution and climate change. The Observatory conducts regular surveys of butterflies throughout coastal Virginia and manages butterfly gardens, such as the one pictured here at Jamestown Marina.
This Pearl Crescent made a brief appearance today at the marina garden, on Mountain Mint flowers, in a rare sunny moment in the midst of a very rainy spell of several days.
Brian Taber
