Not just bees and butterflies: Beetles and other brilliant bugs are nature's unsung pollinators
About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimize reproduction, making pollination one of ...
America’s butterflies are disappearing at a ‘catastrophic’ rate
US butterfly populations are declining because of insecticides, climate change and habitat loss, with the number of the ...
Watch Millions of Butterflies Take Flight in One of the Planet’s Most Magical—and Endangered—Migrations
The high-altitude forest here is the perfect microclimate for the species, and it’s one of the few places in the world where ...
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For butterflies, looks matter when it comes to picking mates
In a nutshell Butterflies choose mates based on vision, not scent or chance. Heliconius cydno butterflies are biologically ...
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U.S. Butterflies Are Disappearing at Drastic Rates, With One in Five Gone Since 2000
A team of more than 30 researchers analyzed 12.6 million butterfly sightings across 76,000 population surveys. They found ...
See How Butterflies Are Surviving, or Not, Near You
Little-understood and vastly underappreciated, insects play an outsize role in supporting life on earth. They pollinate ...
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US butterflies 'all in trouble' as their numbers rapidly decline, report finds
"The easy number to think about is the total number of butterflies in your yard. If you had a garden in 2000 and you saw 100 butterflies, you'd see only about 78 in the year 2020," said Collin ...
National Plant a Flower Day: Help pollinators like monarch butterflies with your garden
National Plant a Flower Day is all about celebrating the beauty of flowers. Planting them can also help save pollinators like ...
Butterflies in US have dropped 22% since 2000
America’s butterflies are disappearing because of insecticides, climate change and habitat loss, with the number of the ...
Butterflies are in trouble. It doesn't take much to help
“You can really make a difference to the local population. Any individual flower you put out it likely to get visited,” said ...
Garden Q&A: How can I support early butterflies?
As we move into April and more butterfly species mature and take flight, you can incorporate a variety of early-blooming native plants into the garden to attract them.