Butterfly Effect bridge offers safe passage for pollinators
As a result of the Our Energy Our Landscape design challenge, Dutch design studio VenhoevenCS, landscape architecture...
The best plants for pollinators
If you want to beautify your yard while simultaneously doing your little part to save the world, consider planting...
Rare large blue butterflies reintroduced in Gloucestershire
Rare large blue butterflies just experienced their most substantial reintroduction into the wild. About 750 of...
New solar farm in Indiana boosts local pollinators
Goodbye, dirty old coal-fired power plant. Hello, sunshine, bees and butterflies. That's what the folks...
Migrating monarch butterflies get the right-of-way in new agreement
A new nationwide right-of-way agreement aims to protect migrating monarch butterflies. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife...
The best plants for attracting pollinators to your yard
Pollination occurs when pollinators, like bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds, feed on the sweet nectar from flowers....
The National Butterfly Center is threatened by Trump's border wall
The National Butterfly Center is a 100-acre wildlife preserve and botanical garden in South Texas. Not only is...
Street artist paints huge lifelike murals of butterflies
Graffiti artist Mantra is livening up cities with magnificent nature murals. The France-based self-taught painter...
Black butterfly wings provide inspiration for superior solar cells
Researchers recently took cues from butterflies to design thin film solar cells that can better absorb light. The...
Plummeting insect population signals potential "ecological Armageddon"
Over the past three decades, the insect population has collapsed by 75 percent in nature reserves studied by scientists...
70-mile wide group of butterflies shows up on radar, confuses weather scientists
“It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… a flock of migrating butterflies!” After spotting a colored mass...
San Francisco man singlehandedly revives a rare butterfly species in his own backyard
The California Pipevine Swallowtail butterflies used to flutter about San Francisco aplenty, but their populations...
8 Ways that you can help save monarch butterflies
Monarch butterflies are easily recognized worldwide for their gorgeous black and orange wings, but these beauties...
HOW TO: Attracting pollinators: Flowers that encourage bees, butterflies, and birds to visit
What is a Pollinator? noun \ˈpä-lə-ˌnā-tər\ : one that pollinates: as a : an agent (such as an insect)...
U.S. Government launches $3.2 million campaign to save monarch butterflies
Spurred into action by monarch butterflies' declining numbers, the United States Government launched a $3.2 million...
