A new study sheds light on how extreme weather events impact phenological processes, specifically the flight period of ...
The Karner blue butterfly is one of many species of butterflies that depend on specific host plants. Because the caterpillars only feed on blue lupine plants, they depend on hatching at the right time ...
In addition to its human admirers, the lupine plant attracts pollinators to its tubular flowers of white, pink, red, yellow, ...
The scarce butterfly can be found in grasslands and around host plants such as wild blue lupine and wild indigo. Their numbers continue to decline, and they are predicted to be federally endangered.