How to Raise Butterflies-to-Be: Rearing Caterpillars the Topic at Monday’s Austin Butterfly Forum
Ever wonder about the best way to raise caterpillars [...]
Ever wonder about the best way to raise caterpillars [...]
Native plant sales and how to raise a caterpillar workshops among butterfly events slated for April in Central and South Texas.
The San Antonio Chapter of the Native Plant Society [...]
Happy Equinox and the start of Butterfly Season. Monarch butterflies and Eastern Swallowtails are fluttering back into our gardens. Be sure you have milkweed, fennel, parsely, dill and rue to give them something to host on.
On the Monarch butterfly trail in Michoacan, Mexico: butterfly "explosions," pure joy and a promise to see them soon here in Texas as they make their way north on their migratory journey.
From birds to butterflies to dragonflies, the Love of Nature is grand. Damselflies and Butterflies display amazing reproductive endurance and creativity, including the "mating wheel"
Vladimir Nabokov's prescient theories on butterfly evolution vindicated by Harvard scientists
Female butterflies become more promiscuous when the weather cools, says a recent Yale study. Their male partners get choosier about their mates.
Monarch butterflies churn the butterfly love butter for 24 hours straight. Talk about stamina! And you thought they only conserved their energy to make the 3000-mile migration from Canada to Mexico....
The Butterfly Life Cycle in a Weekend at the Texas Butterfly Ranch: Eggs, Chrysalis and a Hatch