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 ...

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.

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 ...

Baltimore orioles also plunder tent caterpillar nests. The beautiful orange and black blackbirds pluck caterpillars from the bag and deftly slice them down the middle, exposing the guts.

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.

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.

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.