Creating a hummingbird-friendly yard or garden is an ongoing learning process. This once-popular bush that hummers love is ...

There are more than 120 species of butterflies in western Pennsylvania, and the North American Butterfly Association wants ...

Four rare species have fluttered into view during my continuing quest to photograph the endangered Mount Charleston blue ...

A third of the food grown worldwide depends on insects and other animals for pollination, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service ...

Sylvia Garcia took this photo of a Western Tiger Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio rutulus) as it was nectar-feeding on a ...

The Butterfly bush, also known as Buddleia davidii in the plant world, is known for its elegant silvery green foliage and colorful blooms. It comes in many varieties and can grow between 2-12 feet ...

The simple hack is this: deadheading your flowers. The logic is simple – deadheading your blooms prolongs the flowering of ...

Readers will no doubt be familiar with the common buddleia (or buddleja) generally seen with long, pointed purple or occasionally white flowerheads. This is buddleia davidii brought from its native ...

There is a problem with pollinators. Their numbers are declining, especially various species of bees. But, you could help to ...

Kern, who is chair of the West Los Angeles chapter of California Rare Fruit Growers, finally gave up growing Gros Michel, but ...

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Butterfly bush. (Photo by Joshua Siskin) It’s been two years since a volunteer butterfly bush (Buddleia sp.) sprouted in my garden, and it’s already seven feet tall.