The most extensive and systematic insect monitoring program ever undertaken in North America, led by an Oregon State University researcher, shows that butterfly abundance in Ohio declined yearly by 2% ...

Swooping over meadows and pausing on blooms, swallowtails draw attention with their large size and striking colors. They get their name from the extended tails on their hindwings, a feature that makes ...

BALDWIN -- The Karner blue butterfly is one finicky flutterer. Nature buffs won't see this tiny, ornate insect just anywhere -- caterpillars feed only on wild lupine plants; adults are found in flat ...

A unique butterfly breeding experiment gave researchers an opportunity to study the physical and genetic changes underlying the evolution of structural color, responsible for butterflies' iridescent ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is slashing the designated critical habitat of the endangered Quino checkerspot butterfly by almost two-thirds, from 171,000 acres to just 62,125 ...

A Washington State University butterfly expert described painted ladies as a “cosmopolitan” butterfly because they can be found on every continent aside from Antarctica. The ladies are coming to town, ...

Morse is an associate professor of biology at the University of San Diego and lives in Point Loma. Monarch butterflies are one of the most iconic insects in the American landscape. If you’re asked to ...

(WHTM) — Butterflies are known for their beautiful and symmetrical colored wings. With over 180 species in the commonwealth, here are just a few you may see throughout your garden, according to Penn ...

Edith Smith bred a bluer and shinier Common Buckeye at her butterfly farm in Florida, but it took University of California, Berkeley, graduate student Rachel Thayer to explain the physical and genetic ...