For a while, entomologists have been sharing their increasing concerns that the eastern population of the monarch butterfly is decreasing and this year’s statistics so far are no different. “The ...
The Woodland Park Zoo will be full of activity this weekend, as Saturday marks the return of its seasonal Molbak's Butterfly Garden and the grand opening of the new Microsoft Pollinator Patio. Both ...
I want to start a butterfly garden. How do I begin? This was a recent question for the Master Gardener Volunteer Yard Review Team. Normally, the yard review covers the nine Florida-Friendly ...
Want to encourage more butterflies in your backyard or garden? Consider planting in concert with the lifecycle of butterflies in your region! Avid butterfly gardeners typically know their way around a ...
To visit a butterfly garden is to enter a world of scent, color and motion. “People forget themselves a little bit,” says Dan Babbitt, associate director of Hershey Gardens in Hershey, Dauphin County, ...
Butterflies are everyone's favorite pollinators. Attracting them to the garden is easy: Grow flowers, and they will come. To a butterfly, your garden is not just a pretty place; it's a habitat, and ...
Butterflies aren’t just beautiful — they’re out there working hard, pollinating as they flit from flower to flower. In fact, butterflies are the second-largest group of pollinators, after bees.
OCEANSIDEOCEANSIDE — When Myra Esler heard that western monarch butterflies were dying out, she knew she had to do something. To lose the butterflies would be like losing an old friend, and a critical ...
CARLSBAD — At most restaurants, having crawling or flying bugs around your table would be a bad thing. But at Carlsbad’s Seasons Restaurant, a butterfly garden has been planted at the center of its ...