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Learn which host plants, cover and native flowers to grow so caterpillars, chrysalises and adult butterflies thrive in your ...

I talked about your question with my friend Allan Felsot. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. He told me cocoons are mostly silk. But they’re usually made by moths. A butterfly ...

“Young female new to town seeks a high-flying guy for a good time. If interested — and I know you are — just follow the perfume trail to me, la femelle du papillon de la nuit.” This is a female moth, ...

A Jeremy Hemberger, department of entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Caterpillars start out as tiny creatures. In the beginning they eat lots of food — just like the book “The Very ...

Late fall and early winter are the best times of year to spot giant silk moth cocoons in New England. Perhaps you’ve seen ...

EAGLE – It was supposed to be a group effort all the private, public and parochial schools coming together to release hundreds of butterflies into the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens in Vail. But it didn’t ...

We enjoy observing the fluttering of butterflies and moths in our pollinator gardens, but do we recognize their differences, or do we assume all are butterflies? We appreciate these native insects ...