Researchers identified over 100 species that have dropped by more than 50 percent in the last two decades: "This is a wake-up ...

Butterflies are declining rapidly across the contiguous United States, including in Massachusetts. Research published in the ...

"For those who were not already aware of insect declines, this should be a wake-up call" said Collin Edwards, the lead author ...

Butterfly populations in the US shrank by more than a fifth within the space of two decades, according to a new study.

In Grames' Conservation Biology class, students are currently working on IUCN assessments for western skippers, including one ...

Butterfly curator Dr Blanca Huertas explains the secrets behind ... There are nearly 4,000 different species of skipper, found everywhere in the world except Antarctica. Researchers have recently ...

RENO, Nev.— Responding to a Center for Biological Diversity petition, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed Endangered Species Act protection for the bleached sandhill skipper. This ...

The banana skipper, Erionota torus Evans (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae, Hesperiinae, Erionotini) is a South-east Asian pest of banana that, in the last 60 years, has spread to the southern Philippines ...

A 1-inch butterfly that can only be found beside hot ... The bleached sandhill skipper’s largest population is found at the Baltazor Hot Spring — a spring that’s located next to what is ...