Butterflies are beloved creatures that inspire art and play an important ecological role, but according to new research ...

The owl butterfly may be beautiful, but looks can be deceptive: in reality the species is something of a hooligan. The juice guzzler loves nothing more than a day feeding on fermented fruit and ...

The caterpillars feed on a wide range of grasses such as fescues and bents and the butterflies can be seen from June to August. A large bright white butterfly with black tips on its forewings ...

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Since 2000, butterfly populations in the U.S. have decreased by 22%, with 33% of species showing significant declines. The study analyzed data from 76,000 surveys and 35 monitoring programs ...

Francis Satyr butterflies — which only live on a bomb range at Fort Bragg in North Carolina — “so it could be extinct.” Some well-known species had large drops. The red admiral ...

Some collectors shot large butterflies out of the sky with shotguns filled with mustard seed. The unusual ammunition was used to limit the damage caused to the specimens. The Natural History ...

Francis Satyr butterflies — which only live on a bomb range at Fort Bragg in North Carolina — “so it could be extinct.” Some well-known species had large drops. The red admiral, which is so calm it ...

The first countrywide systematic analysis of butterfly abundance found that the number of butterflies in the Lower 48 states has been falling on average 1.3% a year since the turn of the century, with ...

Schultz, a senior author of the study, said the special place butterflies occupy in the human imagination made the work possible. For better or worse, people gravitate toward certain species. For ...