If you’ve ever wanted to create a home for a baby monarch butterfly, it’s the season to plant in South Carolina. Residents who want to attract monarch butterflies in their yard and give them a place ...

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A favorite mystery of nature lovers is the behavior of the showy, black-and-orange Monarch butterflies, which appear to fly south in fall like migratory birds. Many authorities have doubted that ...

Scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys that take thousands of miles to their winter colonies in ...

Willow Neal receives funding from Central England NERC Training Alliance (CENTA). The Butterfly Conservation charity’s big butterfly count asks the UK public to record butterflies wherever they see ...

Krohn Conservatory announced on Tuesday that it is hosting a brand new "Butterflies in Space" event every day this summer.The butterflies, which have long been a favorite attraction at the Krohn ...

Leonard Gershe's “Butterflies Are Free” is a delightful throwback to the 1960s, a time when everything was groovy, everyone was cool and the establishment was uptight. Hippies were in, free love was ...

SAN ANTONIO -Texas – Despite the leaves falling from the trees, temperatures finally getting cooler, and the time change, something else associated with the fall season appears to be missing. Monarch ...

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For her second novel, “In the Time of the Butterflies,” Julia Alvarez wanted to write about dictatorship from a female perspective. She chose the stories of the Mirabal sisters, Patria, Minerva, María ...