Florida Senate Bill SB2080 In July 2009 Gov. Charlie Crist signed into law a bill that has changed the way homeowners can landscape their homes to save water and become more Florida Friendly.

Luckily for the Florida leafwing, it's one of the numerous species that has benefitted from our 2011 agreement with the Fish and Wildlife Service pushing the agency forward on Endangered Species Act ...

Luckily for the Florida leafwing, it's one of the numerous species that has benefitted from our 2011 agreement with the Fish and Wildlife Service pushing the agency forward on Endangered Species Act ...

The plants disappeared from the Florida landscape by the 1930s, and so did Atala butterflies. Then one day in 1979, a botanist named Roger Hammer was walking around on Virginia Key near Miami ...

The butterfly likes living in high-elevation hammock forests with a mix of trees and grassland, which is also highly sought-after land for real estate in Florida.

As a butterfly gardener, you can help pollinators during stormy weather by making sure your garden has places for butterflies to go when it rains. Trees (dead or alive), tall grasses, and even ...

The plants disappeared from the Florida landscape by the 1930s and so did Atala butterflies. Then one day in 1979, a botanist named Roger Hammer was walking around on Virginia Key near Miami when ...

Unfortunately, one of those populations was in a state park that around 2009 became infested with invasive iguanas that ate the plants where the butterfly laid its eggs.