Glad you are enjoying the garden, reminding me of one of my favorite episodes of Night Gallery, Rod Serling's next project after The Twilight Zone. Green Fingers stared one of the greats of acting Elsa Lanchester.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5bl631

Like the idea of a habitat, Lilo. I did a craft show a couple of weeks ago and the booth next to me was giving away seed balls with milkweed seeds that will attract monarchs. People were grabbing them up, hope they actually threw them in their gardens or any place where milkweed will grow.

I have milkweed in the backyard, dill, parsley and wildflowers and if I saw 30 butterflies all year long, I think its a few too many. 2 monarchs, a couple of cabbage whites and I remember 2 swallowtails, a few little blues. No honeybees at all, a couple of wild bees and a resident bumblebee. I don't know what happened in the last couple of years. No, I don't spray and woods and wild open spaces are only about 1/2 mile away.

I surprisingly have milkweed growing in my too shady front garden. Straggly and scrawny, but still in bloom. And I have some volunteers as well.

In the early spring I had hummingbird moths feeding on nectar plants for the hummingbirds. (I was wondering why baby hummingbirds were feeding at dusk.)

I have such a soft spot for swallowtails and mourning cloaks although monarchs are the media stars.

I have no room in my postage-stamp size lot, nor enough sun, but at one time I was yearning for a native grapevine that has glorious fall color. The photos were swoon inducing. Then I came back to reality.

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Anneliese, I noticed the same with bees, wasps, and skippers. No pesticides used at all, but I don't know what the neighbors do.