Watching butterflies flit around the yard is one of life’s simple pleasures. Butterflies are not only calming to watch, but they play an important role in the health of backyard plants. Most plants ...

Butterflies are colorful, delicate, and graceful creatures that bring beauty to the world. They are also exciting to watch as they grow from one stage of their life to the next, including the stages ...

Most of us have had great experiences with butterflies. These delicate, mystical insects capture our attention as they flit from flower to flower, especially in the springtime. But have you ever ...

In the poem “Blue-Butterfly Day,” Robert Frost describes butterflies as “…flowers that fly and all but sing.” If you want to attract as many of those flying flowers to your home as you can, you’ll ...

When shopping for flowers in springtime, it is easy to get a little carried away. So many blooms to choose from, and they are all so pretty! It can be hard to pick a favorite, but plants and flowers ...

It has been found that butterflies and bees are more strongly attracted to gardens with a greater diversity of pollen-rich ...

It's almost spring! And March 12 is National Plant a Flower Day, the perfect day to bask in the sunlight and plant flowers that will help pollinators like the endangered eastern monarch butterfly. The ...

Climate warming reduces nectar quality in flowers, leaving migrating monarch butterflies with less energy to survive winter.

Five blocks of Sheridan Road in Zion going north to Shiloh Boulevard were lined with zinnias last weekend before a right turn to the Zion Park District Bandshell, where scores of locally raised ...