Turn your backyard garden into a beautiful butterfly paradise. Grow swallowtail butterfly host plants and flowers.

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas — Tall spikes of deep purple liatris blooms sway in the breeze of a training area. Among the flowers, volunteers clad in bright safety vests are scattered, their eyes sharp and ...

In early fall, the butterflies assemble by the dozens or hundreds on the South Shore before a journey of several weeks to ...

Monarch butterfly on a person's finger - Matt Champlin/Getty Images Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) have long captivated humans due to their fascinating life cycles and physical characteristics ...

Monarch butterflies, for example, only lay their eggs on milkweed, and milkweed is all monarch caterpillars can eat. Without ...

Butterflies sit on a pine tree at Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific Grove, Calif. Researchers say that the population of western monarch butterflies is well below what it used to be. One of the most ...

The monarch butterfly, known for its bright orange patterned wings, is in the middle of its migration from the northern U.S.

After Kathy Marshburn lost a child, she didn’t know how she’d move on. Violet was only two months old when she died unexpectedly, of a heart condition, in 2002. Marshburn, who lived in the Houston ...

Last weekend, Salisbury had a hand in one of the largest natural migrations taking place across the U.S., and it happened in ...

Organizers hope these gardens, five of which now exist in Houston, will help restore critical habitats for one of nature’s ...

The Texas agriculture commissioner criticized a proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to extend federal protections to the monarch butterflies that migrate across North America. The wildlife ...

Phoenix is home to 74 monarch butterfly "waystations," pollinator gardens that are planted and maintained to support the imperiled insect. One of the city's gardens is next to the downtown crime lab, ...