Common lawn plants like dandelions and violets that homeowners often try to eliminate are actually critical nectar sources for North American pollinators facing habitat loss.

Researchers discovered how a butterfly parasite has silently affected butterflies for over a century using museum samples.

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It is the normal pattern for the ... the label instructions. Plant butterfly milkweed, blue mist flower, Porter weed, blue curl, salvia, coreopsis, and lantana in addition to zinnia and penta as ...

which often sees the highest butterfly numbers of any colony in the world, we spotted our first few monarchs weaving across the road, cast against a yawning mountain vista. “In these little towns the ...

Because humans are fond of butterflies, it’s easy to get volunteers to participate in surveys to count them. The annual North American Butterfly ... the reason for this pattern might involve ...

The Florida white is among the butterflies experiencing the most drastic population loss, according to a new study. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 Butterfly populations ...

Data from about 76,000 butterfly ... butterflies. "We've lost one out of every five butterflies in just 20 years. That means if you went out to watch butterflies in 2000 and you saw 100 ...

In addition to limiting the use of insecticides, the United States Department of Agriculture suggested that the planting of milkweed can help enhance some butterfly populations. Monarch butterflies ...

"Our national-scale findings paint the most complete -- and concerning -- picture of the status of butterflies ... patterns." The reason for this significant drop in butterfly populations is ...

The first countrywide systematic analysis of butterfly abundance found that the number of butterflies in the Lower 48 states has been falling on average 1.3% a year since the turn of the century ...