Best grown in warm climates with ample humidity, river indigo bush shrubs are a favourite in the garden. Butterflies are ...

Our foul summer has had a dire effect on all our insects, apart from midges and clegs of course. And our gorgeous butterflies are no exception.

A series of plant sales coming up feature native varieties that don’t need a lot of water or fuss and that provide food and ...

Food and cover are best provided by native plants that are found in our area ... provide nectar for butterflies and in winter they provide protection for overwintering insects.

Fall asters are long-lived perennials. The plants die to the ground soon after they finish blooming. Trim the spent stems ...

Calvin Finch describes the colors of this vibrant flower like "waxy show paint on the clown’s face at an old-fashioned circus ...

[Related: How to plant a garden butterflies will love.] The butterflies overwinter in the forests of the sacred fir trees (Abies religiosa) at high altitudes. However, these forests that the ...

(Follow the monarch butterfly on its nearly 3,000-mile journey.) To give the seedlings on Nevado de Toluca the best chance of survival, the team planted the baby trees under "nurse plants ...

University of Minnesota Entomologist professor Vera Krischik said various factors contribute to monarch butterflies’ decline, such as habitat destruction, pesticide use, insecticides and road salt.

“The tour is a fabulous look at what homeowners have done using native plants in different situations.” Peggy and Paul Hickman, who are now the proud caretakers of a butterfly garden, managed ...

Monarch conservation initiatives in Texas and nationwide aim to enhance survival through habitat improvement and community ...

It would require lot of effort to plant enough trees to provide refuge for the butterflies, “but that may be the only choice down the road,” he says. Growing milkweed ( Asclepias ) and nectar ...