Conventional wisdom is that if you cultivate host plants, butterflies will come. Take, for example, milkweed. After declining monarch populations began making headlines in the late 1990s, people ...

The Monarch butterfly migrates 2,500 miles (4,000 km) across Mexico, the United States, and Canada, but it is now classified as endangered, facing illegal logging in Mexico and excessive herbicides in ...

Spring has just begun, and if you have a green thumb, you might be looking forward to your yearly gardening activities. As temperatures get warmer and the skies get sunnier, many critters will be out ...

Nathan Morehouse wasn’t expecting to discover anything extraordinary when he started studying the cabbage white butterfly. Small, plainly colored, and common across six continents, it’s a rather ...

A unique butterfly breeding experiment gave researchers an opportunity to study the physical and genetic changes underlying the evolution of structural color, responsible for butterflies' iridescent ...

There are about 750 butterfly species in the United States, according to the Smithsonian Institution, with the cabbage white perhaps the most common. Butterfly sightings in gardens are becoming more ...

(WHTM) — Butterflies are known for their beautiful and symmetrical colored wings. With over 180 species in the commonwealth, here are just a few you may see throughout your garden, according to Penn ...

BUTTERFLIES IN SOUTH FLORIDA THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY IS NOW ON THE ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST DUE TO SOME ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS OUR STEVE KING SHOWS US WHAT’S CAUSING THE DWINDLING MONARCH POPULATION AND ...

Edith Smith bred a bluer and shinier Common Buckeye at her butterfly farm in Florida, but it took University of California, Berkeley, graduate student Rachel Thayer to explain the physical and genetic ...