Warm air, tropical flowers, and butterflies all around make this Michigan garden the kind of spring experience you remember ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monarch butterflies have begun fluttering across Michigan after a migration that began in Mexico. The brightly colored insects ...

Conservation scientists want West Michigan gardeners to make sure the lupine plants in their flower beds aren’t killing endangered butterflies. Extremely rare Karner blue butterflies are entirely ...

Monarch butterflies are migrating north and have been spotted in states near Michigan. Although their wintering population doubled this year, monarchs have experienced a significant overall decline ...

Michigan is one of the only states in the country without an official state insect, but that could soon change. The black swallowtail butterfly, scientifically known as the papilio polyxenes, would be ...

A Poweshiek skipperling is on a black-eyed Susan flower. The purple spots on the wings mark it as one of this year's releases. The Poweshiek skipperling has disappeared from most of Michigan’s ...

Poweshiek skipperling butterflies aren’t an obvious pick for an endangered species poster child. For starters, they seem more moth than butterfly — tiny, fuzzy, earth-toned, lacking the panache of, ...

Monarch butterflies are returning to Michigan for the summer after migrating from Mexico. Michiganders can support monarch butterflies by planting milkweed, tracking sightings, and donating to ...