Butterflies (Papilionoidea) come in a remarkable variety of colors and patterns, from the orange majesty of the monarch to the lustrous red and blue of the peacock butterfly, but all butterflies ...

When Canadian conservation enthusiasts head out to find monarch eggs, it’s always with a magnifying glass and a notebook. Hundreds of Canadian volunteers are taking part in a program to find monarch ...

As July sunlight pokes through the trees, a butterfly egg rests gently in Wojciech Poreba’s palm as he sifts through milkweed leaves at Hamlet Park in Cottage Grove. At age 25, Poreba has four years ...

Butterfly has acquired Pete and Gerry’s Organics, a Monroe, NewHampshire-based producer of organic eggs. No financial terms were disclosed. As a result of the transaction, British Columbia Investment ...

Clad in all kinds of ornate and beautiful colors, the butterfly is a winged insect that flies from flower to flower, consuming the rich, sugary nectar inside. There are nearly 20,000 species of ...

It’s a sunny July afternoon, and Grayslake neighbors Annie Lawson and Heather Bauer are standing at the side of Lawson’s home, carefully going through her garden of milkweed plants. Lawson points at ...

At the Cincinnati Nature Center, patches of native plants are the setting for a sort-of scavenger hunt. Research ecologist Tess Mulrey stops at each milkweed plant she sees. “Each individual plant is ...

An Arlington County gardener has noticed a decline in the number of butterflies to her property over the last 17 years. Mary Free, a Virginia Cooperative Extension Master Gardener, also service in the ...