One of the ways you could help butterflies and moths in your local area is by creating a space with plants they are attracted to. Chris Cosma, a recent Ph.D. graduate from UC Riverside and now at the Conservation Biology Institute, created an online tool that lets you enter your ZIP code and the Butterfly Net shows the best native plant species to use in your area. The site works for all of California and ranks the value as host and nectar plants for local butterflies and moths.
Bees get well-deserved credit as pollinators in California for all sorts of agribusiness, but they are only part of the story. Butterflies, moths, bats and birds deserve credit too.In 2023, a report by the University of Sussex discovered that moths are faster pollinators at night than bees and butterflies during the day. Bees and butterflies do the vast majority of pollination but moths have a much quicker pace.
Sources: Erin Wilson Rankin entomologist at UC Riverside, UC Davis Entomology Department, Peter Bryant of UC Irvine, Microscopic image from Scope Tronix, North American Butterfly Association, butterflyconservation.org, “Western Butterflies” Peterson Field guides, iNaturalist.
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