Consider planting a variety of beautiful host plants to support different native butterfly species throughout the growing ...

“You can really make a difference to the local population. Any individual flower you put out it likely to get visited,” said Nick Dorian, a post-doctoral researcher at the Chicago Botanic Garden who ...

Just as monarchs famously prefer milkweed for food and egg-laying, swallowtail butterflies also have a preferred food as ...

Butterflies are the ambassadors of the insect world. Harmless, iconically beautiful and gently flitting from flower to flower, they’re the only insect we’re pleased to find alighting on our hand.