If you want to attract beautiful native swallowtail butterflies to your yard, planting shrubs with a long, abundant flowering ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It is a commonly held belief that one person can’t make much of a difference when it comes to helping the environment. But Tim ...
It takes more than flower nectar to attract butterflies to your garden. Learn the truth about common butterfly host plant ...
It’s National Pollinator Week, an annual event created to bring attention to the sharp decline in pollinator numbers due to habitat loss, pesticide use and climate change. Butterflies often capture ...
This summer I have been learning more about the wonders of metamorphosis. In early April, I found a caterpillar on a butterfly bush. The caterpillar pupated to become a Chalcedon Checkerspot butterfly ...
North Carolina’s state butterfly is hard to miss — and also easy to attract to backyards by planting a variety of native plants. The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) can be bright yellow ...
On a wooded hillside along the banks of the Allegheny River, Gabrielle Marsden brushed up against an oblong leaf: Asimina triloba—the American pawpaw. The deciduous tree bears North America's largest ...