The mass mortality event of monarch butterflies in California yet again shows how pesticides threaten pollinators and ...

Monarch butterflies are noxious to potential predators because of the cardenolide toxins lacing their bodies, courtesy of the milkweed plants they fed on as larvae. Viceroy butterflies have no such ...

The migrating Monarchs are having a better year — and Florida's gorgeous Atala butterfly is finding succor in Lakeland.

Simple things like hedgerows, field trees, and scruffy edges can help reverse the long-term decline of butterflies across ...

Tammy and Mark Parker are honored to be awarded ‘Garden of the Month’ by Louisiana Nursery for the month of July. Creating their home garden over the years has sown ...

Butterfly gardens are a great source of enjoyment. It can be a perfect opportunity to work with children or grandchildren and ...

Raising butterflies from the larval stage to the adult stage can be a satisfying and educational hobby. It allows you to observe the amazing transformational metamorphosis at home within the safety of ...

Author of the 2006 regional best-selling novel "Time in a Garden," Mary Agria is an 8-time first prize winner of the Michigan ...

Hoverflies can carry pollen over greater distances than bees and pollinate many plants that grow in your garden or yard. Look ...

We are all used to seeing caterpillars hide themselves away and emerge as butterflies or moths, but the species featured in ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture works to neutralize -- again -- the flesh-eating larva of the New World Screwworm fly.

San Antonio classes teach gardeners to grow native milkweed, supporting monarch butterfly migration and population health.