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 ...

Learn more about the bone collector, a cannibalistic, carnivorous caterpillar seen for the first time in over six million ...

Butterflies and moths start out the season as caterpillars, and caterpillars are voracious feeders of leaves. If you spray ...

A flesh-eating caterpillar dresses up in bones to sneak onto spider webs and steal prey, scientists have discovered.

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 ...