Males, who possess distinguishing black dots along the veins of their wings, are slightly bigger than females. Each adult butterfly lives only about four to five weeks. Milkweed is the only plant on ...

Enjoy these fascinating swallowtail butterfly facts. Female Swallowtail Butterflies Produce Many Eggs A female black swallowtail can lay up to 400 eggs in her short life. Check out six common types ...

DM / Flickr / CC BY-ND 2.0 Milkweed is famously the host plant for the monarch butterfly, but it also attracts plenty of other butterfly species, as well as beneficial predators. Its asclepias family ...

With vigorous debate surrounding the health of the monarch butterfly, new research may ... and increased planting of nonnative tropical milkweed -- milkweed is the only plant on which monarchs ...

WHEN YOU SEE A MONARCH BUTTERFLY RETURN ... AT HOME, YOU CAN DO THINGS LIKE PLANT NARROW LEAF MILKWEED IN YOUR OWN GARDEN. IT MAY EVEN ENCOURAGE A VISITOR TO, DURING DIA DE LOS MUERTOS, THAT ...

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Martinsburg teen Julia Stedman hopes her pursuit of an Eagle attracts other winged creatures. Stedman, 17, completed her Eagle Scout project on Oct. 3 on the grounds of her ...

Don Hankins examines a bright yellow-green patch in the meadow. The land all around is charred by fire. But here, there’s a sort of miracle at work. Native milkweed has sprung up and bloomed for the ...