Watching as a butterfly floats across your yard can feel magical, as if it’s reminding you to slow down and enjoy the view. But as it turns out, routine visits by these ethereal insects can be more ...

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

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.

When I first planted my garden, it felt like setting up a stage for a performance, where the main actors—bees and butterflies ...

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

Incorporating pollinator plants in your landscape could make you the bee’s knees. More than 80% of the world’s flowering plants need insects such as bees to spread pollen and help the plants produce ...

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 planting!

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...