Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The best way to attract butterflies to your garden is to give them plenty of bloom. Butterflies don’t care whether your gardening style is formal or informal ...

There is a phenomenon going on in the butterfly gardens in our back yards. The Monarch Program in Encinitas has observed through tagging that monarchs hatched in gardens stay in gardens and don’t join ...

Butterflies may look magical, but you don't need any special tricks up your sleeve to attract them to your garden. All you have to do is meet their requirements for food and water, sun and shelter - ...

You — a large, warm-blooded creature incapable of flight — actually have something very important in common with the butterfly: You both adore flowers. In clear prose and lovely photographs, a new ...

Converting your existing garden into a hummingbird and butterfly garden, or creating a new one, is easy. To attract the greatest number and varieties of native butterflies and hummingbirds, it’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

A nondescript mowed grass panel west of Pearson Hall was recently transformed into a pollinator friendly garden by Dan Garber, Miami’s horticulturist. The area was marked by a dirt “cow path” leading ...

Love butterflies? Massachusetts has one of the best places to see them this summer, according to USA TODAY's 10BEST Readers' Choice Awards. The annual rankings highlight the best in travel, food and ...

If you're planning a trip to visit one of the Midwest's best backpacking trails, there's a stop you should add along your route. The Reiman Gardens in Ames, Iowa, is a sprawling public garden managed ...