KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The caterpillar form of an unassuming, small, white butterfly is among the world's most invasive pests affecting agricultural crops, and a newly published paper by a consortium of ...

Summer and winter seasons constitute vastly different living conditions for animals and plants in many parts of the world. So how have different organisms evolved to cope with this variation? A study ...

A lot of tiny, white wildflowers blooming away from our manicured lawns probably will go unnoticed. They might surprise you if you take time to check them out. While I have been gallivanting about in ...

The Cabbage White (Pieris rapae) was probably the first butterfly I ever noticed, long before I learned its name. This rather nondescript insect may be among the most familiar butterflies worldwide.

Tri-City butterfly lovers are aflutter this week. Clusters of small white butterflies have been seen flitting around pine trees and bug aficionados say that's unusual. The Pine White butterfly usually ...

A guide to seven small pollinator plants to attract bees, butterflies, and more to tiny spaces - these native plants are all ...

As we enter the month of September, our exit from summer becomes more apparent everyday. Afternoon temperatures can still be quite warm, but mornings are cool, often with fog. Even the first frost is ...

Each year around mid-summer, somewhere between December and mid-January, the skies of South Africa’s Gauteng province, including the city of Johannesburg, fill with small white butterflies. Some land ...

The fading of butterflies starts with a quiet absence. It begins with hardly any caterpillars wriggling from plants and even fewer butterflies stopping to take nectar from a milkweed bush. Across the ...

Through close examination of genetic variation and similarities between existing populations, and comparisons of historical data regarding infestations of Pieris rapae in Brassicaceae crops, a ...