Create a pollinator paradise in your garden with these perfect planting recipes. Use plants individually or mix-and-match ...

Plants provide more than just nectar for butterflies; they are essential for their reproduction. Butterflies need host plants to support their entire lifecycle, from egg to adult. Each butterfly ...

use plants in the parsley family as host plants. To help these butterflies, consider planting extra parsley, dill, fennel, ...

Stinging nettles (Urtica dioica) don't always have the best reputation among gardeners, but they are a crucial part of the ecosystem for many British butterfly caterpillars. Luke says, 'Host plants ...

Butterfly enthusiasts from the Nilgiris have recorded for the first time in India, the Nilgiri tit (Hypolycaena nilgirica) utilising a large terrestrial orchid plant as a host. The study ...

If you want to see butterflies of all kinds in your garden, you have to plant for them. I love the fall because I can walk outside my door and always spot a handful of butterflies in my garden.

By ensuring the presence of host plants in an area ... Swallowtail caterpillars feed on dill, parsley, sycamore, or willow. While adult butterflies and moths are important pollinators, their ...

Fresh dill is available from supermarkets and ethnic grocers. Dried dill is a perfectly acceptable substitute to fresh, and is even preferred in some Middle Eastern dishes. Use only the leaves of ...

Filling your garden with fluttering insects will make your flowerbeds beautiful and support biodiversity at the same time. Museum ecologist Larissa Cooper explains how to do it. Butterflies are a ...

Leave for 5–10 minutes to dry. Place a dill head (or fronds) into each sterilised jar. Add a teaspoon of dill and mustard seeds and a garlic clove to each jar. Put the vinegar, 200ml/7fl oz ...

The overexploitation of 25 species of host plants valued for their medicinal properties threatens the swallowtail butterflies in the forest habitats of a part of Assam often referred to as the ...

Potyviruses are the largest genus of RNA viruses in plants. We are interested in molecular elucidation of the different stages of potyvirus infection and how the viral processes are localized and ...