Bees make great pollinators, but so do butterflies. Here are some tips on how to create a butterfly-friendly pollinator ...

Discover where to find a red-spotted purple butterfly. See what the butterfly looks like and what host plants will bring one ...

These late-blooming plants native to North America help feed butterflies — especially monarchs-— at a crucial point.

Monarch butterfly populations are plummeting, with a shocking 96% drop recorded in the Western Monarch Count. Scientists warn ...

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

A study, published Thursday in the journal Science, found that 22% of butterflies in the United States disappeared between ...

The Xerces blue butterfly went extinct along the San Francisco coast some 80 years ago. But scientists have identified a ...

“Every butterfly you see was a caterpillar that ate a plant,” said Collin Edwards, a quantitative ecologist who led the study. “So conditions that are bad for plants are going to be bad for ...

A recent study combining data from more than 76,000 surveys from 35 monitoring programs across the country found butterfly ...