Monarch butterflies are making their flight north after wintering in Mexico. Here's what to know about the fascinating, fragile traveler.

Michigan is bracing for an invasion of butterflies. They arrive every spring, more than 150 species of them fluttering around ...

“Butterflies have been declining the last 20 years,” said study co-author Nick Haddad, an entomologist at Michigan State University. “And we don’t see any sign that that’s going to end.

Every March, as butterflies burst from their chrysalises, I feel myself shedding the weight of winter, breathing in warmth and color after months of gray. My birthday, which falls at the same time, ...

Butterfly abundance in the continental United States has crashed some 22% in only 20 years across 554 species counted, an alarming new scientific study involving Michigan State University found.

Haddad is a terrestrial ecologist – a scientist on the ground specializing in the fates of the most fragile and rare ...

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“Butterflies have been declining the last 20 years,” said study co-author Nick Haddad, an entomologist at Michigan State University. “And we don’t see any sign that that’s going to end.” A team of ...