Butterfly, Insect and Garden Blogs

Here at BioWorks, we like to read anything that will stand still long enough to be read. Here are a few of the butterfly, insect, botany and garden blogs from around the world that we enjoy and we think you might enjoy them as well.

• Ben the Butterfly Guy is written by Benny Bolet and covers the butterflies of the Amazon.
• My Florida Backyard is written by MOSI’s own Jill Staake who turned her tiny suburban 1/10th acre lot into a wildlife oasis.
• Butterflies of Singapore is the blog of Butterfly Circle, a group of butterfly enthusiasts located mostly in Singapore and Malaysia
• Bug Eric is a professional writer and entomologist, principal author of the Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America. Eric has built a loyal following as a volunteer for AllExperts.com, Bugguide.net, and WhatsThatBug.com.
• What’s That Bug? is written by Daniel Marlos who has been identifying insects for homeowners and gardeners since 1998.
• Milkweed Gardens is written by a Central Florida mom and Master Gardener named Eileen who writes about her backyard gardening adventures.
• Living with Insects is written by Jonathan Neal, an Associate Professor of Entomology at Purdue University and author of the textbook, Living With Insects (2010).
• Botany Professor is a rather new blog blog that comes to us from an unnamed USF botany professor but we look forward to seeing what he has to say.
• Eat the Weeds is written by a gardener in Maitland Florida who keeps over 12 dozen sorts of edible plants in his own yard.
• Florida Native Plant Society blog gives us lots of information about preserving and restoring the native plant communities in Florida.
• Hawthorne Hill Wildflowers is written by Craig Huegel who is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to Florida native wildflowers.
• Beetles in the Bush is written  by Missouri entomologist Ted MacRae is is packed full of deliciously buggy information.
• The Medieval Garden enclosed is one of my personal favorite blogs on the internet. Written by the intrepid gardening staff at the Cloisters Museum in New York, these gardeners write extensively about their plants and how they were used in times long ago.

If we missed a blog you think we should know about, please drop us a line! We always need more to read so that we can keep our already swollen book purchasing budgets in check.