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 ...

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

A Pennsylvania butterfly farmer says listing the monarch as a threatened species could do more harm than good.

Grow milkweed (Asclepias) to support monarch butterflies, hummingbirds and bees while adding color, fragrance and beauty to ...

Some milkweeds are very aggressive and can quickly take over garden beds and large areas in the landscape, requiring time and effort to maintain their spread. Butterfly milkweed (Asclepias ...

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

New research shows butterfly populations have ... bees and butterflies are visiting in the garden center. Then I buy those plants and plant them.” Milkweed, the preferred food of monarch ...

A new study finds the number of butterflies has dropped 22% since 2000, a new study finds. Scientists blame insecticides, ...

Butterflies are declining rapidly across the contiguous United States, including in Massachusetts. Research published in the ...

A study recently published in the journal Science determined that the butterfly population across the continental U.S. has ...