Thinking of starting a pollinator garden? Experts suggest growing a variety of native plants that provide year-round nectar and pollen to butterflies, moths, bees, wasps and hummingbirds. It’s best to ...

Sometimes, nature's surprises come with wings. In a new study, scientists have pulled from a 35-year dataset to examine ...

Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish ...

This winter, volunteers from the Xerces Society, a nonprofit environmental group, tallied just 9,119 western monarchs — a ...

Fifteen-year-old James Tebbutt says it is amazing to see how his portable butterfly enclosure boosts the mood at his local ...

Much of California’s Habitat for the migratory Monarch butterfly is gone. Wild fires have decimated groves of trees and plants where the Western Monarch winters. The typical flight plan of the Monarch ...

A winter count of visiting monarch butterflies found a steep drop from previous years, which has scientists worried about the ...

The proboscis, a specialized feeding structure found in butterflies and moths, plays a crucial role in their ability to feed on nectar and other fluids. This elongated mouthpart is adapted for ...

There's a lot going on in the world right now that makes falling asleep feel like mission impossible. From doomscrolling ...

The Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park announced their popular butterfly exhibit is returning. This will be the 30th ...

Monarch butterflies return to California for the ... but all the other pollinators feeding on these plants. Let’s not add to the problem in our insect world – we’re already fighting an ...