This week on the Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, retired UT Extension Agent Mike Dennison demonstrates how to set up an armadillo trap. Also, Mary Schmidt from Lictherman Nature Center ...

Dealers often pay children to find and trap butterflies on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island. The children work from morning until midafternoon, when the insects are most active. They sell their catch ...

Monarch butterflies have been dwindling over the last few decades. While their eye-catching colors might feel like a common sight on a warm day, ... “For them, it’s like a trap.

Zinnias and tomatoes make excellent neighbors. “The tall blooms of zinnias help support pollinator activity, which in turn ...

Despite some conservationists’ concerns, UC Davis researchers show that tropical milkweed has minimal impact on California monarch butterflies’ migratory patterns.

When Benton County officials first floated the idea of creating a habitat conservation plan for the Fender’s blue butterfly, a number of rural property owners asked to be left out of the ...

The June 6 front-page headline, "Landowner caught in butterfly trap over conservation plans" and the accompanying article regarding Benton County's implementation of the Prairie Species Habitat ...

Researchers find that the white spots on the wings of monarch butterflies may help them fly farther. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on June 21, 2023.) Accessibility links ...

While the butterflies wintered in Mexico, the organization found that the eastern monarch butterfly colonies took up 2.2 acres of regional forests during the 2023-2024 winter season.

In a meadow in America a group of butterflies have been drawn into a lethal evolutionary trap. Nature Video uses painted hands to tell the story of the Edith’s checkerspot butterfly.

The analysis was based on 12.6 million individual butterflies counted in almost 77,000 surveys across 35 monitoring programs from 2000 to 2020. Change in butterfly abundance, 2000-20 -100% ...