We have had some warm weather this February, which means it is time to keep an eye out for butterflies! You may be thinking I am in the wrong hemisphere, but there is a chance you can spot butterflies ...

Cabin fever got you down? Looking for a harbinger-of-spring to lift your spirits? Hepatica … trailing arbutus … Persian speedwell … yellow-rumped warblers … spring peepers? Those would be nice. But ...

We were out at Lafayette Reservoir a couple of weeks ago, looking for the bald eagle that wasn’t there. But there was a fair amount of butterfly action: a probable echo blue, some small hyperactive ...

Looking back at the last five springs in the Northland, we see an interesting fluctuation. Two springs, 2010 and 2012, can be considered very early. Two, in 2013 and 2014, have been late, maybe said ...

Nominated by garden clubs and endorsed by schoolchildren statewide, the mourning cloak has all the credentials required of an umpteenthgeneration Montanan. It is sturdy. There are tales of ...

Mourning cloak butterflies, Nymphalis antiopa, have an immense geographic range that circles the globe in the northern hemisphere. They are native to North America, Europe and Asia, and in some areas ...

It was consistently cold through most of January. Then it warmed the first days of February. I was standing on our deck looking across the creek into the pasture. An eastern phoebe was hawking insects ...

Readers are seeing some beautiful butterflies lately. Pamela Smith, of Tully, wrote: "Saw this beautiful butterfly on my Dahlia plant in my front garden in Tully. Love the colors." The second photo ...

The Mourning Cloak Butterfly (Nymphalis antiopoa ) is one of the earliest (and the latest) flying butterflies in its native range, which spans widely across temperate North America and Eurasia. These ...