The Butterfly Effect WE all love butterflies - the animated flowers of the garden - and gardeners need to do all they can to encourage them. Not only are they indicators of a healthy environment, they ...

Butterflies and flowers have a done deal, a mutually beneficial partnership that works like this: Butterflies need food, and flowers need help with pollination. So, the flowers bribe the insects with ...

With its charismatic appearance and awe-inspiring migrations, it's not surprising that the monarch butterfly motivates gardeners to provide extra care for these pollinators in their gardens. These ...

It's almost spring! And March 12 is National Plant a Flower Day, the perfect day to bask in the sunlight and plant flowers that will help pollinators like the endangered eastern monarch butterfly. The ...

Cissbury Ring, Findon, West Sussex: The Adonis blue butterflies have a remarkable symbiotic relationship with the ants in the horseshoe vetch Unpromising grey cloud assembles as I climb Cissbury Ring.