If we found our gardens filled with skinny, long-legged bugs crouching on sharply jointed legs wiggling their sensitive antennae and sticking their noses in our flowers, we would likely be horrified.

Learn which host plants, cover and native flowers to grow so caterpillars, chrysalises and adult butterflies thrive in your ...

Scientists are marveling at the impressive comeback of Monarch butterflies, which once again are carpeting the fir trees of central Mexico in a sea of orange and black wings — despite a deadly freeze ...

For the first time ever, scientists have sequenced the internal bacterial makeup of the three major life stages of a butterfly species, a project that showed some surprising events occur during ...

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Hundreds of tropical butterflies have taken over a portion of South Coast Botanic Garden, as part of its immersive SOAR exhibit in a new pavilion. Approximately 650 Painted Lady butterflies were ...