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The monarch butterfly is a beautiful and colorful creature, but it takes a while to reach that part of its adult life.
It’s hard to overlook the brilliant orange and black wings of a monarch butterfly as it moves through a garden of flowers. It ...
Walton blames the use of herbicides and pesticides for the decline in the monarch butterflies. If cattle eat milkweed, it can ...
Around this time last year, my wife noticed some black spots on the parsley and dill growing in our garden at home. I didn’t think much of it – the dots looked like bird droppings to me – but my wife ...
We’re celebrating all things wiggly and creepy and crawly and fluttery,” said Jennifer Olivera, the manager of the annual ...
Data showing the migratory monarch's decline were too precautionary, prompting the IUCN to change its status from endangered to vulnerable. Monarch butterflies cluster in the early morning light ...
Four rare species have fluttered into view during my continuing quest to photograph the endangered Mount Charleston blue ...
Not all bugs are bad. In fact, some can benefit your garden. So don't be so quick to try to get rid of every insect you see ...
Whoever keeps wiping out a healthy patch of wild milkweed on Thunder Bay’s outskirts needs to get up to speed on the crop’s ...
Christina-Taylor Green’s love of butterflies, evident in her colorful artwork, is now helping to restore a butterfly phenomenon. The newly-upgraded Christina-Taylor Green Memorial River Park ...
June is National Pollinator Month, and it’s a great time to explore ways we can support pollinators in the garden.
Butterfly weed’s standout orange flowers bloom from early summer to fall, attracting hummingbirds, native bees, and butterflies—including monarchs, which rely on milkweeds as larval host plants.