A new study compiling butterfly surveys across the country found a 22% overall decline, while seven species found in Maine ...

Of the 554 butterfly species recorded, there were 13 times as many species in decline as increasing. Two-thirds of the studied species have declined by more than 10%. One of the authors of the ...

Mikula often said butterflies symbolize new life, that several cultures use the same word for butterfly as for soul, and that ...

The rare species are particularly scarce. His observation mirrors a global trend. In Spain, Europe, the United States, and other regions with reliable data, the landscape is the same: a world with ...

The monarch butterfly is known by scientists as Danaus plexippus, which in Greek literally means "sleepy transformation." The name evokes the species' ability to hibernate and metamorphize. Adult ...

We found declines in just about every region of the continental U.S. and across almost all butterfly species. Overall, nearly one-third of the 342 butterfly species we were able to study declined by ...

Photographer and National Geographic Explorer Rena Effendi learned that a little-known species was named after her late ...

The study, published in the journal Science, found that the number of individual butterflies has decreased, and the number of butterfly species present has also decreased. Some of the species that ...

Last month an annual survey that looked just at monarch butterflies, which federal officials plan to put on the threatened species list, counted a nearly all-time low of fewer than 10,000 ...

Taken together, the researchers suggest, the data strongly supports the hybrid as a unique species. They have therefore given the butterfly its own name: Papilio solstitius, a nod to its midsummer ...

The Colin Wyatt Butterfly Heist is a bizarre and fascinating story, and as Braby is about to discover, it started a flutter ...

Two-thirds of studied species declined by more than 10%, the study said. Butterfly populations have dropped by 22% across 554 recorded species in the United States, according to a new study in the ...