Butterflies aren’t the only ones that can benefit from butterfly gardens. Honeybees, which are native to Europe and introduced to the United States, are also important pollinators for home gardens.

Teaching the community about the importance of pollination and nature was the goal of the 8th annual Cambria Bee, Butterfly & Bat Faire on Sunday. People from all over the Central Coast traveled to ...

Considering location, layout and pollinator-friendly plants will help you make your city balcony a butterfly hotspot in the ...

This means there are many more beneficial insects and pollinators that are less visible, happily working and living in your ...

Dressed as a life-sized butterfly, Kaiden Potter was spotted flapping his wings inside the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center. The 3-year-old wore brightly colored Monarch wings while migrating ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Monarch butterflies will soon start their ...

With the first day of spring, March 20, now here, it is time to sweep the cobwebs from the tools in the garden shed and start ...

For more than 40 years, Arthur Shapiro, a distinguished professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis, has counted butterflies at the same 10 spots in California. His sites span an elevation range ...

Coneflowers already draw butterflies and bees, but pairing them with the right companion plants can turn a simple bed into a pollinator hotspot.

Ever have a butterfly land on your fingertip or heard the buzzy mumble of a bee foraging in a flower? You’ve touched a miracle. Pollinators give us so much. They grace our lives with beauty, keep our ...

Apart from managed honey bees, there is increasing evidence that some wild bee species have experienced regional declines in North America. These include Bombus affinis, the Rusty Patched Bumble Bee, ...