A free, family-friendly, butterfly focused education event will be held on June 14 in the Brevard Discovery Garden in Cocoa.

The Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens’ new Butterfly Experience opens this weekend with hundreds of live butterflies taking flight in the newly renovated Tropical Orchard. For the first time ...

Twice the length of its body, its long tongue can access nectar deep in ... highest diversity of air plants and orchids in the continental U.S. Development in South Florida has severely altered ...

When you think of butterfly migration ... Adults feed on flower nectar, while their caterpillars eat a huge variety of host plants. They’re unable to withstand freezing temperatures, so when ...

In early spring, when many overwintering insects begin to emerge, they need a readily available source of nourishment to ...

Evolution has fostered many reproductive strategies across the spectrum of life. From dandelions to giraffes, nature finds a ...

“Host plants are critical to the life cycle of butterflies,” Hill says. “Butterfly bushes are a nectar plant, but they are not a host plant.” That means butterfly bushes don’t help most ...

Epic Universe is a powerful example of how Florida’s nursery and landscape ... For over 50 years, Dutch Mill has supplied millions of flowering plants — such as violas, geraniums, and ...

The main way to attract hummingbirds to your yard is to plant numerous plants that produce nectar-rich red flowers ... coordinator for the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and ...

All across this country we are seeing fewer and fewer of the beautiful Eastern Monarch Butterfly (Danaus ... spring and summer blooming nectar producing flowering plants for the adults.

This spring, researchers successfully reared some 400 caterpillars of the rare frosted elfin butterfly and released more than half into the wild in their historic North Florida range. The spring ...