Butterfly populations are plummeting worldwide, with experts citing habitat loss, pesticides and climate change as key ...

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

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 ...

"Butterflies have fast life cycles - at least one generation per year, often two or three. And each of those generations lays a ton of eggs. This means that if we make the world a more hospitable ...

This year’s count of 4.42 acres of occupied forest habitat is nearly twice as large as last year's, but eastern monarch ...

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

Butterfly World, the largest butterfly house on Earth and the first of its kind in the United States, has been in business since 1986 and is home to more than 20,000 live butterflies. The 3-acre ...

The annual butterfly count doesn’t calculate the individual ... For that, Jorge Rickards, Mexico director general for the World Wildlife Fund, said “you can't let down your guard” and ...

Even the invasive white cabbage butterfly, “a species that is well adapted to invade the world," according to Haddad, fell by 50%. "How can that be?” Haddad wondered. Cornell University ...