Spring is a beautiful season for many reasons, but perhaps the most magical part of this time is the abundance of butterfly ...

Conventional wisdom is that if you cultivate host plants, butterflies will come. Take, for example, milkweed. After declining monarch populations began making headlines in the late 1990s, people ...

Creating a haven for monarch butterflies in your backyard is more than just a joy for the eyes, it’s a crucial way to support ...

Edith Smith bred a bluer and shinier Common Buckeye at her butterfly farm in Florida, but it took University of California, Berkeley, graduate student Rachel Thayer to explain the physical and genetic ...

Blather's Blabber: Seen flapping in the sun, common butterflies can be identified by black spots on their white wings. To the human eye, both males and females look white, but there are actually ...

It takes more than flower nectar to attract butterflies to your garden. Learn the truth about common butterfly host plant ...

(WHTM) — Butterflies are known for their beautiful and symmetrical colored wings. With over 180 species in the commonwealth, here are just a few you may see throughout your garden, according to Penn ...

A unique butterfly breeding experiment gave researchers an opportunity to study the physical and genetic changes underlying the evolution of structural color, responsible for butterflies' iridescent ...