Butterfly milkweed stands out as a top pollinator magnet thanks to its vivid blooms, long blooming season, and role as a host plant for key butterfly species. Mixing native plants like clustered ...

Butterflies are important pollinators and look beautiful fluttering around your yard. These blue fast-growing flowers are ...

Trudy Hartis is a retired school teacher and a master gardener who is fond of butterflies, especially monarch butterflies. “Today, I’m doing a butterfly demonstration. I’m trying to encourage people ...

It’s National Pollinator Week, an annual event created to bring attention to the sharp decline in pollinator numbers due to habitat loss, pesticide use and climate change. Butterflies often capture ...

Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) is a vibrant, low-maintenance native plant that supports pollinators in the garden. It's part of the milkweed family, and, like its relatives, it "supports a whole ...

Many people are familiar with the plight of the polar bear due to climate change. However, worldwide declining populations of pollinators are also gaining more recognition. Besides honeybees, ...

Dressed as a life-sized butterfly, Kaiden Potter was spotted flapping his wings inside the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center. The 3-year-old wore brightly colored Monarch wings while migrating ...

Roswell visitors spent the weekend surrounded by fluttering wings, native plants, and hands-on learning as the Chattahoochee Nature Center kicked off its annual Flying Colors Butterfly Festival. Now ...

For 30 years, the Festival of Butterflies has invited guests to walk among the butterflies and learn about the insects' role ...

Bee populations are declining. More than half of the bat species in the United States are in severe decline or listed as endangered. And international scientists recently announced the monarch ...