A pretty fritillary butterfly on a green leaf - Sandra Standbridge/Getty Images If you're keen to get your pollinator garden off to a good start, mass-planting wildflowers early in spring is the way ...

People have been interested in butterflies for hundreds of years because of their bright colors and complicated wing patterns ...

A blue-purple member of the Plectranthus genus grows out in nature. - Sky Sailom Sangdad/Shutterstock Butterflies are more than just sets of pretty patterned wings and an easy at-home science project ...

There’s a small crowd hovering over the seacliff buckwheat in a native plant garden outside of the Point Vicente Interpretive Center in Rancho Palos Verdes. They’re looking for the El Segundo Blue ...

Butterfly populations are in decline across the continental U.S., dropping by 22% between 2000 and 2020 according to a study ...

SARATOGA COUNTY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — As spring continues, the Wilton Wildlife Preserve & Park says the first Karner blue butterflies of the year are expected to emerge as the first week of June approaches ...

The Miami Blue is the Rasputin of butterflies. But biologists are hoping for a happier ending for the Miami Blue than the early 20th Century Russian mystic who survived one assassination attempt after ...

It’s a cool, crisp July morning on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. A wisp of salty air rustles the emerald leaves of a sea-cliff buckwheat plant on a steep, rocky bluff overlooking the Pacific. As passers ...

CLARENCE, N.Y. — "Everything's connected, the cause and effect. One thing disappears, it's going to have an effect somewhere down the line. You might not see it right away," said David O'Donnell, ...

Butterflies are more than just sets of pretty patterned wings and an easy at-home science project to teach kids about metamorphosis through insect rearing. These insects fit an important ecological ...