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.

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.