I spend an inordinate amount of time making observations of just about everything that inhabits the natural world, but, ...

The gardens at Giverny are the stuff of art-history legend. But preserving them is a Sisyphean battle against time, weather ...

The migrating Monarchs are having a better year — and Florida's gorgeous Atala butterfly is finding succor in Lakeland.

When someone mentions Arizona gardens, your brain probably conjures up images of cacti and tumbleweeds doing their best impression of a Wild West movie set. But tucked away in Flagstaff lies The ...

Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Henrico, Virginia, is exactly that kind of enchanted spot. A 50-acre wonderland where reality seems to blur around the edges, replaced by something straight out of the ...

Sneaky chemistry by a real-life “Last of Us” Cordyceps fungus mind controls its zombie insect victims by convincing them they’re starving.

Eventually, the female orchid mantises developed their gorgeous yellow, white, and pink coloring to better camouflage as ...

A Washington State University Vancouver conservation biologist has spent decades studying butterflies and recently coauthored a report that provides a guide to recovering butterfly populations across ...

Butterflies that independently evolved the same wing patterns have also evolved similar eyes and brains which are fine-tuned for vision in the shifting light of tropical rainforests, according to new ...

In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has ...

Papilio is a picture book told in three parts about three stages of a butterfly's life (there are really four stages but egg time is pretty boring). It's also written and illustrated by three friends.