My interest in butterflies has been renewed after scant attention paid for several decades. I am building a file (small to date) of butterfly photos taken on birding outings. (I look for birds, but I ...

Among the multitude of reasons to want birds or butterflies around, their value as pollinators that are essential for flower and vegetable gardens is a key benefit of their presence. You may also want ...

The fifth Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ principle is attracting wildlife. Though attracting butterflies, birds, and hummingbirds may sound difficult, it’s very easy once you know which plants to add ...

The annual Butterfly and Bird Festival, a day filled with wildlife encounters, food trucks and musical performances, is returning to Sweetbriar Nature Center in Smithtown on June 10. The event is in ...

We know about migrating species of butterflies, but they don't all fly south for the winter. Several overwinter in their home habitat and could use your help.

Hopelands Gardens is known for a variety of attractions, both natural and manmade. They include the huge live oaks and stately magnolias, the Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame and Museum, the ...

Scientists have commonly believed life is more colorful in the tropics. A study tested that assumption by measuring color properties in hundreds of species of butterflies, birds, and flowers spanning ...

Design a neat, drought-tolerant South Texas landscape with trees, shrubs and blooms that feed birds, butterflies and ...