A warming climate has helped some to flourish, researchers say, but the outlook is troubling.

Georgia Parkinson Hill is a horticulturist, garden designer, and owner of the native landscape design firm Beautyberry Gardens in Atlanta, Georgia. Why Are Butterfly Bushes Bad? In addition to ...

Butterflies are disappearing “like family run shops from the high street”, according to scientists. Many of the UK’s ...

Well, most folks who celebrate it nowadays call it May Day. Beltane is the ancient Druid holiday that comes on the first day of May and marks the halfway point of astronomical spring. So that means ...

About 70 per cent of the species on Earth are insects. They are fundamental components of most ecosystems: they comprise half ...

Spring has just begun, and if you have a green thumb, you might be looking forward to your yearly gardening activities. As temperatures get warmer and the skies get sunnier, many critters will be out ...

The Butterfly House is vying for "Best Butterfly Garden" in USA Today's 10Best Readers' Choice Awards. Here's how you can ...

* What it is: Just about everyone short of discerning horticulturists thinks the chaste tree is a butterfly bush when they see one blooming this time of year. It’s easy to understand because chaste ...

Figures from the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme show 33 of the country's 59 species have fallen since 1976. The scheme, by Wareham-based Butterfly Conservation and partners, has gathered more than 44 ...

Butterfly fossils are rare, and finds that preserve fine anatomical details and wing patterns are an absolute exception. An ...

Butterfly bushes do attract pollinators but they also have some big drawbacks. We all love to see butterflies flitting about in our gardens, and that’s why for years the butterfly bush (Buddleia ...