CAN’T get enough juice out of your Apple iPhone? There are a few easy tricks to boost its battery life. Two of them require almost no effort at all – but the most powerful one is a secret “shortcut” ...

It sounds a little unbelievable at first. A caterpillar turns into what is basically a biological soup inside a chrysalis, then re-emerges as a butterfly or moth with wings, new senses, and a ...

Dear Neil: I have two yellow butterfly vines (Mascagnia macroptera). I’ve tried nurseries here for the past two years and they no longer stock them. I tried planting seeds early this spring into small ...

On a wooded hillside along the banks of the Allegheny River, Gabrielle Marsden brushed up against an oblong leaf: Asimina triloba. The American pawpaw. The deciduous tree bears North America’s largest ...

The female swallowtail butterfly (left) has extra orange spots and a different shape on its wings to mimic species that are toxic to predators, while the male (right) has the standard set of white ...

On any trip to a natural habitat you may experience something memorable, uplifting or mysterious. If you are fortunate, you may experience all three, as I did recently. Strolling through our longleaf ...

Butterflies are a delight to watch in the garden as they flutter from one flower to another feeding on nectar. They are like airborne flowers as they flash their colorful wings. For the past couple of ...

Do you have a picture from paradise you’d like to share with Tropicalia readers? We’d love to print it. Email photos to tropicalia@news-press.com. Be sure to include your full name, where you took the ...

You say you don’t like spiders and insects and other creepy crawlies? You wish that mosquitoes would disappear from the planet? Beware of what you wish for. In partnership with green plants, the ...

A summer’s day at The Sunflower Garden in Westminster on Tuesday, Aug. 12. A bee collects pollen from a Mexican sunflower at The Sunflower Garden in Westminster on Tuesday. (Brian Krista/Staff) ...

When marine scientists gave Sydney Harbor seawalls a colorful glow up, they discovered it boosted marine biodiversity along our increasingly urbanized, concrete-dominated shorelines. Their findings ...