Monarch butterflies that hatch in the spring and early summer live fast and die young at only two to six weeks. But those that emerge in late summer can survive six to nine months. That’s long enough ...

Dec. 31—SFA Gardens will host the monthly Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9, in the Ina Brundrett Conservation Education Building at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center, ...

The calendar is especially tight this year between Thanksgiving and Christmas, so if you have not figured out what you are going to get as gifts for the gardeners on your list, you better move fast.

The late Jane Goodall once called “Bicycling with Butterflies,” Sara Dykman’s book, “an extraordinary story” — both a lament for the destruction of nature and a celebration of the beauty that remains.

Every year, for millions of years, a huge number of painted lady butterflies have migrated thousands of miles across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Though they’ve been a common sight throughout ...