Gardens packed with blooming flowers are extremely popular. But are these highly curated creations actually helpful – or is ...

“They have smaller flowers so butterflies with tiny proboscides can reach the nectar,” she said. “Butterfly bush (Buddleja) ...

They’re important plant pollinators ... California” and the Orange County coordinator for the Xerces Society’s Western Monarch Butterfly Count. Brisco says the biggest declines in insect ...

Monarch butterflies depend on the milkweed plant as the only food source for its larvae, but the monarchs benefit from the arrangement.

Plants produce an enormous abundance of natural products. Many natural plant products are ancestry-specific and occur only in ...

locusts, what's the difference? Cicadas, like locusts, show up suddenly and in large numbers, and are sometimes called "locusts," according to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.

Mount Washington neighbors came together to hire goats to clear their steep hillside. Whether they can do it again depends on ...

She is also a board member with the Wyoming Native Plant Society. She knows saltcedar and has nothing good to say about it. Get any of our free email newsletters — news headlines, sports ...

As a young child, I attended Cub Scout and Boy Scout meetings because my brother was a member of each group, and my mother was a leader of the groups.