Growing butterfly orchids as houseplants is a viable option outside the plant’s native hardiness range (USDA zone 8). Butterfly orchids should be planted in a light orchid potting mix ...

The blotched butterfly orchid, Sarcochilus weinthalii was first collected by Ferdinand Weinthal, a notable early Australian orchid collector and grower near Toowoomba in southern Queensland in 1903.

Butterfly Magic launches Oct. 1 for a seven-month run in the Cox Butterfly & Orchid Pavilion. It’s the same place where the exotic butterflies have been released in the last 13 seasons, but it ...

Published July 15, 2016 at 9:45 PM EDT This flowering ghost orchid, or Dendrophylax lindenii, has successfully been transferred to the butterfly rainforest at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

DEAR DAVID: Your tawny caterpillar, which looks just like a tomato hornworm save the color, was an Achemon sphinx. It eventually turned into a large and stunning light pink and brown moth.

The Schaub Butterfly and Orchid Pavilion is the first of four solarium-style structures to open at the Wonder Gardens. The 400-square-foot green steel buildings were made near Paris in the 1980s.