Butterflies are fragile and vulnerable to predation by all kinds of critters, from birds and reptiles to spiders and other ...

The fading of butterflies starts with a quiet absence. It begins with hardly any caterpillars wriggling from plants and even ...

The team of volunteers is trying to save monarch butterflies by cultivating milkweed — the only plant where they lay eggs.

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Every fall, an incredible migration occurs through the state of Indiana, where millions of tiny monarch butterflies fly on ...

The butterfly population in the U.S. has dropped more than 20% over the past two decades. Some species living in Connecticut ...

Pete Hurst produced a snapshot of the local picture by extracting figures for 10 local species of butterfly The number of four species of butterfly in Devon were at their lowest for at least a ...