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 ...
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 ...
US butterflies 'all in trouble' as their numbers rapidly decline, report finds
Researchers across the United States collected data on more than 35 butterfly monitoring programs. It included data from 12.6 ...
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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Number of Monarch Butterflies Overwintering in Mexico is Way Up–Double the Forest Acreage of Last Year
The number of monarch butterflies overwintering this year in Mexico has nearly doubled, according to the 2025 annual census.
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 ...
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.
Where Have All the Butterflies Gone? “Shocking” Nationwide Decline Sparks Alarm
Butterfly populations in the U.S. declined by 22% from 2000 to 2020, with 13 times as many species declining as increasing.
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 ...