Butterflies are beautiful creatures that typically have magnificent coloring and are associated with sunshine, flowers, ...

A research team has identified a new species of tiger swallowtail butterfly living in eastern parts of North America. In ...

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

The text has to a large extent been rewritten and a number of plates have been added, all the species of butterflies occurring in America north of Mexico being depicted, with the exception of a ...

America’s butterflies are disappearing ... live on a bomb range at Fort Bragg in North Carolina — “so it could be extinct.” Some well-known species had large drops. The red admiral ...

Summer is prime butterfly season. Butterflies are cold-blooded, meaning their body temperatures are the same as the surrounding air.

The migratory monarch butterfly—the iconic subspecies common to North America—was declared endangered ... on the IUCN Red List—the inventory of species’ conservation status—marks the ...

Many butterflies, bees and moths are fluttering into oblivion. A new report co-authored by a Canadian researcher warns that more than one-fifth of pollinator species it studied in North America ...

For some species, we are already out of time. This major study reviewed over 12 million butterfly records across the United States and found something deeply unsettling: butterfly populations have ...