'Preserving butterflies is not just about preserving beauty and color, but about the stability and health of ecosystems on which we all depend,' says ecologist Dotan Rotem The post A third of Israel’s ...

Every winter, a marvelous spectacle occurs as hundreds of thousands of butterflies travel south across Taiwan in one of the ...

In the early 1990s, Keith Willmott and a friend, both undergraduate students from the United Kingdom, arrived in Ecuador with ...

A new study by Michigan State University found that butterflies have been decreasing rapidly in the Midwest U.S. The recent study looked at 136 species of butterflies and found that most of the ...

An iconic butterfly that waits out the cold months along the California coast each year may soon get added protections. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing the monarch butterfly as ...

Butterflies closer to the equator have been shown to evolve shared wing patterns faster than their relatives at higher latitudes. That gradient reframes tropical diversity as an active process, shaped ...

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The once-common orange-and-black butterflies have declined by 90% in recent decades, with the latest count showing the second smallest population on record, according to the Center for Biological ...

BOSTON (AP) -- Historic butterfly communities in Massachusetts are dwindling and being rapidly replaced by their southern relatives, according to a Harvard study released Sunday. The study outlines ...

Read full article: Here’s a schedule of services for the City of San Antonio on Labor Day Isolated storms are possible this evening, mainly along and north of I-10. SAN FRANCISCO – More than 80 years ...

The Fort Indiantown Gap military base in Lebanon County is home to the world's only surviving population of the eastern regal fritillary, a large butterfly that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

As sunlight was shining on a park in Australia, several “iridescent” butterflies flew around. A scientist watched as the colorful insects did “aerial contests” and “established mating territories.” ...