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 ...

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 ...

Butterflies have long been believed to represent transformation and change, thanks to the stunning metamorphosis they must go through to go from caterpillar to the winged pollinator so many of us ...

The perfect plants to attract these pollinators and create a biodiverse yard ...

There’s a small crowd hovering over the seacliff buckwheat in a native plant garden outside of the Point Vicente Interpretive Center in Rancho Palos Verdes. They’re looking for the El Segundo Blue ...

SAN FRANCISCOSAN FRANCISCO — More than 80 years ago, a beautiful butterfly called Xerces Blue that once fluttered among San Francisco’s coastal dunes went extinct as stately homes, museums and parks ...

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 ...

Jana Johnson was a struggling grad student in 2003 when she first met the butterfly that would change her life. She was 34, with two little boys and a crumbling marriage. Her research into the effect ...