Hundreds of native Florida butterflies fluttered around Schaub on Tuesday morning in the new butterfly and orchid pavilion at the Everglades Wonder Gardens in Bonita Springs. Butterflies landed on ...

what pollinates the ghost orchid?” said conservation photographer, Mac Stone, who specializes in photographing America’s wetlands, especially the Everglades. “This is the burning question ...

We stop to admire the caterpillar of a Florida atala butterfly ... European markets scavenged the Everglades for their colorful charms. “There was kind of an orchid fever,” says Jennifer ...

But I wanted to see the real Everglades and to achieve that ... We saw other orchids that day: ribbon orchids, jingle bell orchids and butterfly orchids. Those that were in bloom produced flowers ...

Dozens of monarch and zebra longwing butterflies took flight in celebration of a new chapter at the Everglades Wonder Gardens — a butterfly walk-through building. A solarium filled with ...

The longtime poaching of rare ferns and orchids for sale or private collections, while waning, continues to affect species depletion, the report said. Changes in the Everglades' natural drainage ...

Novelist Susan Orlean made the ghost orchid a household name in her 2000 ... and I would explore the Florida Everglades, entering through the Tamiami Trail (the road between Miami and Tampa).

Her best-seller about an obsessive poacher would help make the once-obscure ghost orchid the most famous wild flower in the sprawling Everglades ecosystem. Twenty-five years later, the ghost ...