Blather's Blabber: Seen flapping in the sun, common butterflies can be identified by black spots on their white wings. To the human eye, both males and females look white, but there are actually ...

Growing milkweed from seed is an easy way to make your garden a monarch landing zone.

BALDWIN -- The Karner blue butterfly is one finicky flutterer. Nature buffs won't see this tiny, ornate insect just anywhere -- caterpillars feed only on wild lupine plants; adults are found in flat ...

Conventional wisdom is that if you cultivate host plants, butterflies will come. Take, for example, milkweed. After declining monarch populations began making headlines in the late 1990s, people ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person pruning a butterfly bush - Thijs de Graaf/Shutterstock Butterfly bushes (Buddleja davidii) are known as one of the best ...

A unique butterfly breeding experiment gave researchers an opportunity to study the physical and genetic changes underlying the evolution of structural color, responsible for butterflies' iridescent ...