On June 24, a group of 20 volunteers planted a hummingbird and butterfly garden at a residence near the Medical Center. The garden was a project from an internet auction organized to raise funds to ...

Pentas, lantana, verbena, zinnia, salvias (many different species and cultivars), Mexican butterfly weed (Asclepias curassavica) and buddleia are excellent flowering plants to attract butterflies to ...

A: Creating a butterfly garden is one of the easiest areas of the landscape to tackle. Understanding the life cycle and needs of your regional butterflies is the best place to start. The butterfly ...

I want to start a butterfly garden. How do I begin? This was a recent question for the Master Gardener Volunteer Yard Review Team. Normally, the yard review covers the nine Florida-Friendly ...

Butterflies are a canvas of splendor. Often symbolic of hope, change, renewal, and joy, over 160 species can be found in the Peach State according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

Butterflies, along with many other pollinators, need all the help they can get. Arizona is on the migration route of the vulnerable monarch butterfly. In addition, we have 334 species of other native ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY, Mo. (KFVS) - When many people think of a butterfly, they picture the iconic black and orange monarch. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is pushing to get monarch butterflies ...

The butterfly bush has all of the attributes of a dream plant. It is easy to grow, produces an abundance of fragrant blooms that bring in hordes of butterflies and is drought-tolerant. But it also has ...

The resurgence of a native Floridian plant, the coontie, has in return revived the fortunes of the native Atala butterfly, which relies on the coontie and related plants to feed its larvae. Both ...