A Michigan House bill aims to designate the black swallowtail butterfly as the official state butterfly, highlighting its prevalence and beauty.

A giant swallowtail butterfly is large and stunning. Learn what what the caterpillars and adult butterflies look like and ...

Attract the elegant zebra swallowtail butterfly to your yard by growing nectar plants. Also discover the host plant for the ...

The first monarch butterfly of 2025 arrived about 10 days early, highlighting shifting migration patterns and the impact of ...

A research team has identified a new species of tiger swallowtail butterfly living in eastern parts of North America. In their study, published in the journal ZooKeys, Julian Dupuis, B.

Conventional wisdom is that if you cultivate host plants, butterflies will come. Take, for example, milkweed. After declining monarch populations began making headlines in the late 1990s, people ...

Monarch butterfly have arrived in Oklahoma – the first stop for the famous orange and black beauty migrating from Mexico, where they lay their eggs on the bottom of milkweed leaves. The monarch is the ...

I love plants and flowers but their presence in my garden would not provide the same level of enjoyment without the accompanying buzz, dart, flutter and flit of the pollinators ...

As spring approaches, shade-loving perennials will be a perfect addition to shady gardens, including Virginia bluebells, ...

Companion planting is a mutually beneficial placement of compatible plants and natural pest management — the keys to complete ...

He’s spent nearly two decades taking KU ecology students out of the classroom to splash through bodies of water, survey ...

The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have ...