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Butterflies Have a Major Sweet Tooth — a Look at Their Unique Diets

Hoping to attract a flurry of butterflies to your garden to bring good luck? Knowing what types of food different insects eat can be helpful if you're starting a pollinator garden or want to help them ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

What you can do to help the monarch butterflies

PERHAPS THE MOST WELL-KNOWN BUTTERFLY OF OUR TIME. DOUG: BUT THAT MIGHT NOT BE THE CASE IN YEARS TO COME. CINDY IS BACK TO EXPLAIN. CINDY: IT IS BEAUTIFUL, ICONIC, RIGHT? SCIENTISTS SAY IT IS UNDER A ...
Quad-City Times

Butterfly Q&A

These questions about Painted Lady butterflies were answered by second-graders at Antioch Unified School District in Antioch, Calif. Q: What do caterpillars eat? A: They eat ground-up mallow leaves ...

Do butterflies pee? This weird insect fact is blowing people’s minds

Butterflies, contrary to their delicate appearance, frequently expel liquid waste, a process crucial for their survival. This ...
EurekAlert!

What it takes to eat a poisonous butterfly

Monarch butterflies and their close relatives thrive on poisonous milkweed, thanks to genetic mutations that block the effects of the plant’s toxins while allowing the poisons to accumulate in the ...
The San Bernardino Sun

Butterflies are in peril. Here’s what we can do.

During the past four decades, scientists have documented a 1.6 percent decline per year in the number of butterflies in the southwestern United States. Doesn’t sound like much? Consider how that ...