Some butterflies embark on a long journey to escape winter’s cold if they can’t survive it. Monarchs ( Danaus plexippus) are ...

A countryside in southern England has been transformed into a wildlife success story. The rewilding project at Knepp Estate ...

Honeysuckle: A fragrant, sweet-nectared flower that butterflies love. Junonia: A genus of butterflies more commonly known as ...

For my 11th birthday, I received a perfect, weird, road-trip amusement: a book filled with pictures and descriptions to help kids decode the splatters of insects that smacked into the front of a ...

Did you know that South Carolina has its very own state butterfly? The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) was designated as the official butterfly of the Palmetto State by Act Number 319 in ...

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“Butterflies!” The cute little 4-year-old boldly shouted when someone asked her where pixie dust comes from. That memory was on my mind on a somewhat drab weekday morning recently as I stepped through ...

BANDERA COUNTY — Mid-sentence, Grace Waggener stopped short and pointed. “Butterfly, butterfly, butterfly!” she called out. Waggener and Tom Collins leaned over to inspect the insect, which was ...

From a butterfly shaped by 40,000 years of isolation to creatures 1,400 feet below the sea, scientists uncovered thousands of new species in 2025 — and these nine discoveries stood out amongst the ...

Delias sambawana, a butterfly that hails from Indonesia, at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace and phylogeny by Hillis, Zwickl, and Gutell When Akito Kawahara ...

(CNN) — Challenging times are ahead for smaller, lighter-colored butterflies as Earth’s climate continues to warm, a new study has found. Unlike their relatives with larger wings and darker colors, ...