Have you ever seen a swallowtail butterfly? Swallowtail butterflies get their name from their long tail. It extends from ...

Ah, the bounty of spring: all the tender new foliage on trees and shrubs, flowers galore and prolific growth in the vegetable garden. We gardeners revel in the abundance the season brings, and ...

How big they are: The smallest plants, known as desmids and picozoa, are single-celled algae that are less than 0.0004 inches ...

Entomologist Doug Tallamy's Homegrown National Park movement strives to put native plants that caterpillars eat back into suburban yards. All of us are horrified to hear that North America has lost 3 ...

Caterpillars can only eat the leaves of certain native plants. Amanda McNulty offers ways to help build back North America's rapidly declining nesting bird population.

April’s Earth Month should have made us curious about what we can do to tread more lightly on the planet. We may think of ...

San Marcos Growers has 11 different society garlic cultivars that grow to various heights and many have variegated foliage.

One great place to put a native plant bed is the base of a tree. It creates what is called a 'soft landing' for caterpillars ...

Digger wasps make a short burrow for each egg, stocking it with food and returning a few days later to provide more. A new ...

He instantly became obsessed with them. He constantly begged for them and watched them," Brooke Kimball told Newsweek.

Despite how much humans rely on insects, our actions are reducing their populations in many parts of the world. A recent ...