Trudy Hartis is a retired school teacher and a master gardener who is fond of butterflies, especially monarch butterflies. “Today, I’m doing a butterfly demonstration. I’m trying to encourage people ...

Butterflies aren’t the only ones that can benefit from butterfly gardens. Honeybees, which are native to Europe and introduced to the United States, are also important pollinators for home gardens.

Butterflies aren’t just beautiful — they’re out there working hard, pollinating as they flit from flower to flower. In fact, butterflies are the second-largest group of pollinators, after bees.

Butterfly puddlers are a great way to provide these beauties with an invaluable source of water and nutrients during the heat of summer, and are also a great help for them all year round. Puddlers can ...

A gathering of groups in Sonoma brought focus to the urgency of protecting pollinators during Pollinator Week. Championed by Mayor Logan Harvey who signed the National Wildlife Federation’s Monarch ...

Stakeholders gathered for the first-ever Monarch Butterfly Summit in Washington, D.C. last week to discuss the latest science and conservation actions being taken to address the long-term population ...

Northwest Florida is coming alive as new blooms pop up everywhere you look, and the Panhandle Butterfly House staff are busy as bees preparing the vivarium enclosure for its 21st annual grand opening ...

The Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator festival seeks to raise awareness about the importance of local pollinators and celebrate San Antonio’s role as the First Monarch Butterfly Champion City in the ...

Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) is a vibrant, low-maintenance native plant that supports pollinators in the garden. It's part of the milkweed family, and, like its relatives, it "supports a whole ...

TOWN OF CENTER (WLUK) -- Northeast Wisconsin lawmakers wants to make the endangered Monarch butterfly the state butterfly. State Rep. Paul Tittl of Manitowoc and State Sen. Rachael Cabral-Guevara of ...

(Beyond Pesticides, September 5, 2017) The bog copper butterfly (Lycaena epixante) is a member of the second largest family of butterflies, Lycaenidae, which includes over 4,700 species worldwide.