Butterfly lovers were able to get an up close look at the insect and even feed them during a butterfly feeding on July 23 inside the butterfly house at Miller Nature Preserve in Avon. Families with ...

Aug. 6—Butterflies have invaded the Freeborn County Fair as part of a new exhibit. "You can come in and feed live butterflies," said Annette Holt, a staff member of the Butterfly Encounter running the ...

Researchers observed that the coiling action of the butterfly proboscis, a tube-like 'mouth' that many butterflies and moths use to feed on fluids, resembled a spiral similar to that of the Golden ...

"AN ESCAPE INTO NATURE": The total truth? Many of us are forever seeking that brief but blissful escape into the natural world, in whatever way it arrives. We want to stand in the soft sunshine as it ...

David Folk has been bringing his Columbia County butterfly farm to Harrisburg for years. “We have 1,600 butterflies and we have 11 different species of butterflies,” Folk said. His exhibit at the ...

How knowledgeable are you on the old-time fairy tales? Do you know of the fable of Rumpelstiltskin? It is a tale of spinning straw into gold. Don't try that at home. It doesn't work. Nevertheless, ...

University of Illinois Pollinatarium Director Leslie Deem. University of Illinois Pollinatarium Director Leslie Deem. Tinthonia rotundifolia, Mexican sunflower. Monarch feeding on Tinthonia. I have ...

Mourning cloak butterflies, Nymphalis antiopa, have an immense geographic range that circles the globe in the northern hemisphere. They are native to North America, Europe and Asia, and in some areas ...

Some gardeners get excited at the sight of nibbled-upon leaves on their plants. But not in the "Oh, no! Where's the bug spray?" way. Rather, they tenderly turn over the leaves and start looking for ...

The Cerrado Biome comprises many habitats, the most common being the savanna type. This biome presents an intense dry season that imposes difficulties on organism survival. The Cerrado's wet season is ...

Alongside Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, disc-shaped galaxies, or the cochlea of the human ear, scientists can now count sap-feeding butterfly proboscises as aligned with the Golden Ratio. The ...