What seemed to nature photographer Carol Freeman to be a sick monarch butterfly recently flying in an odd pattern over prairie flowers at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe turned out to be a “once ...

Did you know that butterflies can swim under water as long as they hold their breath, or that that their favorite food is beer? Those were just some of a myriad of interesting bits of information that ...

A yellow road-sign hanging from a tree warns "Butterfly Crossing," and the traffic is indeed intense. Dozens of yellow-and-black-striped zebras and classic monarch butterflies swoop, golden sulphurs ...

Here are some butterflies you may see flitting about local gardens: Tiger Swallowtail, Papilio glaucus – Virginia’s state insect (you can have one on a personalized license plate for your automobile).

It barely survived Hurricane Andrew, existing today only because of luck and the dedication of a University of Florida researcher. The endangered Schaus swallowtail butterfly may also one day owe a ...

Jayme Cramer of M.E. Lyons YMCA broke a 12-year-old record in the 100-yard butterfly Wednesday at the National YMCA Short Course Swimming and Diving Championships.Cramer, 16, broke the record of ...

Degradation of the oyamel fir-pine forest ecosystem in central Mexico is a threat to the overwintering and migratory phenomenon of the eastern North American population of the monarch butterfly ...