Get involved with nature: Search for butterflies

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)