About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimize reproduction, making pollination one of ...
A team of more than 30 researchers analyzed 12.6 million butterfly sightings across 76,000 population surveys. They found ...
A new report finds that butterfly populations in the continental U.S. declined by one fifth between 2000 and 2020—but it’s ...
Researchers identified over 100 species that have dropped by more than 50 percent in the last two decades: "This is a wake-up ...
Homeowners can support insect populations by creating pollinator habitats in their yards, even small changes like planting a tree can help.
As we move into April and more butterfly species mature and take flight, you can incorporate a variety of early-blooming native plants into the garden to attract them.
Little-understood and vastly underappreciated, insects play an outsize role in supporting life on earth. They pollinate ...
Want to welcome an abundance of bees and butterflies to your garden this summer? Garden experts have revealed that planting agastache is the one thing you should do to encourage bees and butterflies ...
Petersen did say that eight species are expected to no longer exist in Minnesota. Butterflies are disappearing due to habitat loss, fragmentation and insecticides To help with these issues, the ...
The chief causes of the decline include habitat destruction, drier and hotter climate due to climate change and insecticide ...
“You can really make a difference to the local population. Any individual flower you put out it likely to get visited,” said Nick Dorian, a post-doctoral researcher at the Chicago Botanic Garden who ...
Butterfly populations in the U.S. declined by 22% from 2000 to 2020, with 13 times as many species declining as increasing.