Not just bees and butterflies: Beetles and other brilliant bugs are nature's unsung pollinators
About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimize reproduction, making pollination one of ...
National Plant a Flower Day: Help pollinators like monarch butterflies with your garden
National Plant a Flower Day is all about celebrating the beauty of flowers. Planting them can also help save pollinators like ...
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U.S. Butterflies Are Disappearing at Drastic Rates, With One in Five Gone Since 2000
A team of more than 30 researchers analyzed 12.6 million butterfly sightings across 76,000 population surveys. They found ...
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How to Help Butterflies That Are Disappearing
A new report finds that butterfly populations in the continental U.S. declined by one fifth between 2000 and 2020—but it’s ...
Butterflies are in trouble. It doesn't take much to help
“You can really make a difference to the local population. Any individual flower you put out it likely to get visited,” said ...
First national analysis finds America's butterflies are disappearing at 'catastrophic' rate
The first ever countrywide systematic analysis of butterfly abundance shows the total number of butterflies in the Lower 48 ...
Hawks, butterflies and a song for her murdered son help Georgia mom reclaim joy after killings
Ever since a hawk hovered over a vigil for her murdered son and lifted her spirits, Georgia mother Michele Davis has found ...
Butterflies in U.S. Disappearing at 'Catastrophic' Rate with No 'Sign' That It's 'Going to End'
A newly-published study in the journal Science found that he total number of butterflies in the U.S. has decreased by 22% ...
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For butterflies, looks matter when it comes to picking mates
In a nutshell Butterflies choose mates based on vision, not scent or chance. Heliconius cydno butterflies are biologically ...
Where Have All the Butterflies Gone? “Shocking” Nationwide Decline Sparks Alarm
Butterfly populations in the U.S. declined by 22% from 2000 to 2020, with 13 times as many species declining as increasing.
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Butterflies, Leperchauns, Powwows and MORE events happening across Utah this weekend!
This weekend is PACKED with Saint Patrick's Day-themed events and more across Utah for you, no matter where you are! Here's ...
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One in five butterflies lost in the US since 2000, study finds
For this study, researchers wanted to understand overall butterfly population trends across the U.S. They gathered records of 12.6 million individual butterflies across 554 species, from more than ...