Lincoln resident raises rare white monarch

Only a handful of white monarchs are seen in the U.S. each year.

Avanleigh Cota hosted a committee of Pollinator Pathway of Addison County gardeners in Starksboro to share the process behind her project, Champlain Valley Monarchs.

Vermonters now have another excuse to get outside on sunny days: to join a statewide survey of the most angelic insects — butterflies.

A local group is encouraging people to make their property welcoming to butterflies & bees.

MONTPELIER — Many of Vermont’s pollinator species continue to remain in peril, and as Vermonters are returning to their gardens and landscaping projects this spring, the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department would like to share with the public a few simple a … (read more)

We all love the flowers we grow in our gardens — an ever-changing palette from spring to fall — and by contrast, the stark beauty of winter.  But birds and butterflies add their own ephemeral magic to our gardens — they are like the icing on the cake.  Fo … (read more)