National Plant a Flower Day is all about celebrating the beauty of flowers. Planting them can also help save pollinators like ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

As spring arrives, garden centers are preparing for an influx of customers eager to revitalize their outdoor spaces. Among ...

By Eliza Brames The Conversation If the joy of seeing butterflies seems increasingly rare these days, it isn’t your ...

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