The monarch butterfly is widely recognized and widely dispersed across North America and it's in trouble. Federal officials ...

Nepal is home to a diversity of butterfly species, with 692 identified. More than two dozen species and subspecies have been ...

Summer is peak butterfly season, but this year many noticed not as many as usual — and that’s due to a decline that’s been in ...

Fifty years ago, developers hoped to build on San Bruno Mountain until a movement was launched to protect the land and its ...

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

Discover the rich butterfly biodiversity of the Eastern Ghats and Visakhapatnam in a groundbreaking study by Indian ...

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 ...

Over 15,000 feet up in the mountains of Peru, a team of scientists watched in shock as a brown butterfly flew “happily” along ...

Research shows that over the past 40 years, butterflies traditionally found in England and Wales have become more common in Scotland.

Watching butterflies flitting about in the backyard never gets old. Yet with hundreds of species out there, it can be hard to ...

Few places host more species than California’s Mojave Desert, a center of biodiversity for lepidoptera, the insect family encompassing roughly 180,000 known moth and butterfly species.

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — Monarch butterflies are at risk of becoming an endangered species. Right now, volunteers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are helping with ...