An eastern carpenter bee on a mountain sweet pepperbush (Clethra acuminata)
WNC Nature Center staff and volunteers installed native plants in the pollinator garden last spring.
The new pollinator garden includes colorful murals on a nearby barn.
A silver-spotted skipper on a buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
An Ailanthus webworm moth on Joe Pye weed (Eutrochium sp.)
A monarch butterfly caterpillar on one of the species’ only native host plants, the butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
A pearl crescent on butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
