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

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 ...

Giant owl butterflies (Caligo idomeneus ... birds and dragonflies because their wing coloring mimicked noxious or predatory ...

North American butterfly species are facing severe declines, according to a new study published in Science, raising concerns ...

Spring brings a profusion of bulbs—tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths—painting the garden in cheerful colors that announce winter’s retreat. Summer sees the emergence of daylilies, coneflowers, and ...

There’s something about the water. It has a mystique that draws people onto it, into it and near to it that’s almost ...

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.

Take a look at some of the fun and informational home and garden events happening in the greater New Orleans area.