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 ...

American snouts are drab brown butterflies about an inch and a half ... He is the author of "Book of Texas Birds," with photography by Kathy Adams Clark (Texas A&M University Press).

Cities around Texas are now hosting hundreds of new butterflies, thanks to the first-ever “CASA Effect” butterfly release.

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 ...

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 ...

The small postman loses the vivid ... who also studies butterfly patterns. Consider the common buckeye. It’s a mostly brown butterfly, with a few vivid eyespots and orange splashes.

When my friend told me that the butterflies ... she suggests small, drought-tolerant plants. On a sun-soaked balcony (a minimum of six hours of direct sunlight per day), Brown recommends using ...