The fading of butterflies starts with a quiet absence. It begins with hardly any caterpillars wriggling from plants and even ...

Armed with a small trowel ... backyards across Texas are a rest stop for one of nature’s greatest migrations. Thousands of monarch butterflies with bright orange and black patterned wings ...

As Texas's official state ... dishes with water or create a small puddling area with damp soil. Avoid pesticides: Using pesticides and herbicides can harm butterflies and their caterpillars.

Unseasonably warm winter weather and recent heavy rains have helped flowers to bloom and attract a rare tropical visitor to Texas in the new year. Staff at the South Padre Island Birding Nature and ...

Look to the sky, Central Texas! Monarch butterflies are in the midst of their ... expanding gardens and removing lawn—even just a small patch—to make space for nectar plants or milkweed.

There's nothing quite like seeing a monarch butterfly spread its ... the current population is just a small fraction of what it once was decades ago. One Central Texas town has now made it its ...

According to research published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, small changes ... and picked a butterfly species called the squinting bush brown, which lives ...