Watching as a butterfly floats across your yard can feel magical, as if it’s reminding you to slow down and enjoy the view. But as it turns out, routine visits by these ethereal insects can be more ...

Readers sent photos of insects up close and afar, including butterflies, spiders, bees and more, resting in nature, on flowers, plants and even on people's heads. Reader photo pick of the week ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 84, No. 2 (Jun., 2001), pp. 234-238 (5 pages) I describe the fall 1999 migration of 5 Lepidoptera and 4 Odonata species north along St. Joseph Peninsula, Gulf County, in ...

You may have walked along fences or trellises and noticed a green climbing vine with exotic lavender and white blossoms that ...

Butterflies are cold-blooded, ... Gulf fritillary caterpillars, for instance, eat only the foliage of passion flower (maypop) vines. Monarch butterfly caterpillars eat only milkweeds.

The gulf fritillary also lays eggs on passionvine, but lays her tiny yellow eggs singly and generally on leaves. This queen butterfly (above) is laying eggs on the underside of milkweed leaves ...

If butterflies know that your garden is a place to refuel, they’re more likely to come by and stay a while. Speaking of which, Bunting adds that a log or old stems would work well with the water ...

Gulf Fritillary butterfly also known as Passion Butterfly, "Agraulis vanillae" in a sequence of shots opening and closing its wings on top of a violet flower. Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to ...

Some favorites include monarch, swallowtail, skipper, sulphur, painted lady and gulf fritillary. To get more enjoyment when viewing butterflies, invest in a field guide that identifies local species.

Turning to the Gulf Fritillary, Shapiro said neither the butterfly nor its host plant, passion vine or passion flower, is native. “This butterfly entered California about 1875 with the railroad from ...