A pretty fritillary butterfly on a green leaf - Sandra Standbridge/Getty Images If you're keen to get your pollinator garden off to a good start, mass-planting wildflowers early in spring is the way ...
A blue-purple member of the Plectranthus genus grows out in nature. - Sky Sailom Sangdad/Shutterstock Butterflies are more than just sets of pretty patterned wings and an easy at-home science project ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- An intrepid group of butterflies is about to help turn the clock back nearly a century in San Francisco's Presidio. Biologist Durrell Kapan, Ph.D. of the California Academy of ...
The most beautiful butterflies in the world: People have been interested in butterflies for hundreds of years because of their bright colors and complicated wing patterns. But the prettiest ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More than 80 years ago, ...
Cal Academy of Sciences and The Presidio join conservation efforts to bring blue butterflies back to San Francisco coast. Genetic sequencing links Silvery blue butterflies to extinct Xerces blue. From ...
It’s a cool, crisp July morning on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. A wisp of salty air rustles the emerald leaves of a sea-cliff buckwheat plant on a steep, rocky bluff overlooking the Pacific. As passers ...
The Miami Blue is the Rasputin of butterflies. But biologists are hoping for a happier ending for the Miami Blue than the early 20th Century Russian mystic who survived one assassination attempt after ...