Zipkin noted that the insects "need a very specific kind of temperature and precipitation conditions to develop from an egg all the way into a butterfly, and if those change during certain times ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing federal protections for the monarch butterfly. The service proposes to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species and designate critical habitat ...

Network Rail says wildflowers and trees planted along tracks help create a "wildlife corridor".

Sometimes, nature's surprises come with wings. In a new study, scientists have pulled from a 35-year dataset to examine ...

The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in ...

The endangered Schaus’ swallowtail butterfly is positively influenced by hurricanes, as new growth from damaged plants ...

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States dropped dramatically this year even as ...

Insects also have wings which some of them use to fly with. Look at this pretty butterfly flapping its wings and flying along. Butterflies and moths are some of the most colourful insects of all.

On Thursday, invertebrate conservation group the Xerxes Society released the results of their 28th annual Western Monarch ...

remarkable insect,” said Don Davis, a Toronto-based naturalist who joined the tagging operation as a high-school student in 1967 and now chairs the Monarch Butterfly Fund. Davis also holds some ...