And March 12 is National Plant a Flower Day, the perfect day to bask in the sunlight and plant flowers that will help ...

“You can really make a difference to the local population. Any individual flower you put out it likely to get visited,” said ...

Just as monarchs famously prefer milkweed for food and egg-laying, swallowtail butterflies also have a preferred food as ...

A study, published Thursday in the journal Science, found that 22% of butterflies in the United States disappeared between ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — A federal judge gave the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service three years to assess the effects of five pesticides ...

The Fluvanna Master Gardener Plant Sale is the volunteer organization’s only fund-raiser of the year. It’s the source of the $1,000 scholarship for post-secondary horticultural education plus support ...

The number of butterflies in the contiguous United States declined by 22 percent this century, a collapse with potentially ...

The chief causes of the decline include habitat destruction, drier and hotter climate due to climate change and insecticide ...

Annual bluegrass will not take over your lawn. It is a cool-season annual that will die off completely and disappear by late ...

Butterflies are vanishing nationwide due to habitat loss, climate change and use of insecticides, according to a new study, ...