Mature butterflies love red, pink, orange, yellow, and purple blooms, preferring flat-topped and clustered flowers with short corolla (floral) tubes that are easy to land on and provide ample ...

You can also make your feeders more attractive by turning them into a fruit plate for visiting butterflies. Add pieces of ...

Clouds of yellow sulphur butterflies have been feasting on and swirling about the Purple on Purple Mexican bush sage, creating a complementary feast for the eyes.

The Purple Emperor is rare among butterflies. It avoids flowers, preferring rotting animal corpses, faeces, mud puddles - and even human sweat. It dwells high in the tree tops in the domain of birds.

I never knew a purple vitex, sometimes called chaste tree, could bring so many butterflies and bees to a yard.Glenn Baum, tree and shrubs expert at Mcdonald Garden Center in Hampton, promised me ...

South Carolina is home to some 165 species of butterflies, including the Red-spotted Purple (Limenitis arthemis astyanax) — arguably among the most beautiful of them all. It’s a medium-sized ...

Why the king of butterflies is set for a comeback: Purple Emperor heads for record numbers this summer - despite its utterly disgusting eating habits.

If you spot the Purple Emperor and are happy to share your photos please send them to [email protected] More on this story The butterfly that feeds on rotting flesh ...