It turns out we're not the only ones.Butterflies need dry weather and heat to flourish, something they just have not been ...

Having a variety of blooming plants also appeared to help the butterflies lay more eggs on milkweed. These plants gave adult ...

Though it may seem fanciful or unusual, it's possible to grow your own cinnamon. Here are the pest and disease issues to ...

In a new study in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, researchers and community scientists monitored urban ...

Yes, we have monarch butterflies in the Inland ... and the less common narrowleaf milkweed, or Asclepias fascicularis. It is important to grow these two varieties here because that is what our ...

Their analysis revealed that a relatively common butterfly called the silvery blue is a close relative. So the team searched for silvery blues fluttering in habitats similar to the Xerces’ old ...

Let’s face it, insects suffer from a likeability deficit akin to that of most politicians, what with the biting and the ...

One of the best ways to bring butterflies to your yard is to grow nectar plants, which are a primary food ... the gallardia ...

Pamela Grundy's new book, Butterfly Gardening in the Carolina Piedmont, describes area butterflies and suggests planting for ...

The Crimson Rose possesses aristolochic acids from pipevine plants. These compounds are highly toxic, causing illness in predators. Another member of the Euploea genus, it gathers toxins from milkweed ...

The garden also includes native plants such as this common yarrow ... An easy plant to grow, said Daniels, is buckwheat, and it supports the Behr’s metalmark butterfly, a species he recently ...

Navi Mumbai: Naturalists have claimed that the number of common leopard or spotted rustic butterflies have exploded in the Kanakeshwar hillock in Alibaug. Hundreds of leopard butterflies were ...