KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Spring is here ... baby birds in the nesting season. Butterflies and bees benefit because they have become specialists using native plants as a food source.

Native plants provide food, flowers and variety when used in landscaping plans for homes and businesses. They’re also a boost for wild birds and butterflies. The Missouri Department of ...

About 100 monarch butterflies fluttered out of the ... “You run out of plants too soon and then people get frustrated.” The ...

This Saturday, the Jefferson Farm and Garden in Columbia is buzzing with the annual Butterfly Festival, featuring crafts, ...

The Missouri legislature approved a law that would ban the sale of multiple invasive plants, including burning bush and ...

Dr. James Trager, a retired restoration biologist who works with Shaw Nature Reserve and the Missouri Prairie Foundation, holds up the leaf of a rose verbena, a type of trailing wildflower ...

Monarch butterflies are making their flight north after wintering in Mexico. Here's what to know about one of Earth's ...

"Monarchs have made their way north, crossing state borders into Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Virginia for the first time this season," Journey North, which tracks monarch butterflies ...