Trillions of insects move around the globe each year. Scientists are working on new ways to map those long-distance journeys.

Fall leaves get a warm welcome from Christie Hunt. The River Forest, Illinois, resident rakes them into her flower beds, ...

From a pink dolphin slinking through the Amazon's waters to the sight of monarch butterflies filling the skies of Mexico, ...

The moths (mostly nocturnal) and butterflies (mostly diurnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera. This list is sorted on MONA number (MONA is short for Moths of America North of Mexico).

This means that we and the plants enjoy more temperate times than we would if we were on the North side of the Abbey. The ...

This iridescent blue butterfly (Morpho peleides) lives in the rainforests of Central America and South America. The blue morpho is one of the most beautiful butterflies in the ... These colorful moths ...

These evocative night blooming flowers have, in many cases, co-evolved with such nocturnal pollinators as moths and bats and frequently have ... native to a broad swath of central and eastern North ...

2024 — Newly discovered birds from Late Cretaceous North America were hawk-sized and had powerful raptor-like feet, according to a new ... New Species of Clearwing Moth from Guyana Discovered in ...

The monarch butterfly -- one of the most widely recognized and widely dispersed insects in North America -- is in trouble. Federal wildlife officials will soon decide whether it deserves protections ...

One of the most recognizable and widely dispersed insects in North America may soon be headed for protections ... going off ...