An international team of scientists have identified nine new species of butterflies using a combination of geographical, ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service will miss by well over a country mile its deadline for deciding whether to protect the monarch ...

A prairie butterfly shifts color, behavior, and eye biology across seasons. Sunlight and air guide how it moves and senses ...

A "treasure" of Northern Ireland's countryside has had a bumper year, thanks to warm weather and conservation efforts. The Marsh Fritillary butterfly used to be widespread across the UK and Ireland ...

A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of the Butterfly Nebula, a grand and graceful cosmic wonder.

For the first time in California, citizen scientists can join the effort to track monarch butterflies thanks to Blu+, a new ...

Your fall wardrobe isn’t the only place to lean into fringe this season. Now that balmy, hair-sticking-to-skin weather has ...

Hopefully, it’s a problem that butterfly researchers won’t have to face for too much longer. A new museum research project, known as AMISTAD, is combining ancient DNA, modern computing technology and ...

While Bronson always hopes for more butterflies, she expects this season's count to be low like last year, when the Pismo Beach Butterfly Grove hosted only 556 butterflies at the peak of the season, ...