Dec. 13—This past summer, Owensboro master gardener Glenda Burke raised and released more than 500 monarch butterflies, which she said was not only a therapeutic process for her, but a small way she ...

Janie O’Connor walked through her back patio in Scandia, stopping to check on her collection of caterpillars and pointing out their stages of development. “See right there? That little black sticky ...

Napa Valley has a unique plant growing along its waterways, especially along the Napa River. It is Dutchman’s pipevine (Aristolochia californica) and it is native to California. This plant, one of ...

Q: We are thinking about planting a butterfly garden but don’t know where to begin. Can you offer some suggestions? A: Butterfly gardens can be attractive to both butterflies and gardeners if a few ...

My first encounter with butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) occurred while hiking through a meadow at Gifford Pinchot State Park in northern York County. Mixed in with the native grasses were green, ...

Born mimics, members of the species lock in wing patterns with flipped-around bits of DNA, Richard ffrench-Constant of the University of Exeter in England and colleagues report online August 14 in ...

St. Tammany Parish Hospital and the St. Tammany Master Gardeners Association-LSU Agricultural Center dedicated a Magic Wings Butterfly Garden at the STPH Parenting Center on April 29 to add an ...