The eastern monarch butterfly population nearly doubled in 2025, but the numbers remain far below the long-term average. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), The population wintering in central ...

The number of monarch butterflies overwintering this year in Mexico has nearly doubled, according to the 2025 annual census.

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“You can really make a difference to the local population. Any individual flower you put out it likely to get visited,” said Nick Dorian, a post-doctoral researcher at the Chicago Botanic Garden who ...

National Plant a Flower Day is all about celebrating the beauty of flowers. Planting them can also help save pollinators like ...

Wanting to add some new plants to your yard? Duval County's master gardeners will offer expert advice at their annual plant sale on March 15.

One butterfly comes so far, and then it will stop to reproduce, and then the offspring from that monarch will emerge from the ...

Iridescent sweat bees, hairy-faced mining bees, tiny Perdita minima the size of a gnat. Thanks to swarms of apiary ...

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Say the word “butterfly” to any younger Generation Xer, millennial, or older Zoomer, and any number of songs may immediately jump to the top of their minds. One of these may be the iconic introduction ...

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