Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I love nothing more on a sunny afternoon than sitting on my patio, sipping on a cool drink, and butterfly spotting. I live in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The endangered Karner blue butterfly has struggled with habitat loss. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service If the joy of seeing ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A recent U.N. panel on biodiversity reported ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. If the joy of seeing butterflies seems increasingly rare these days, it ...

Butterflies play essential role in pollinating wild plants and crops. Which makes a new study published in Science on Thursday such bad news. It shows the climate crisis is posing an existential ...

What Does an American Lady Butterfly Look Like? The American lady butterfly has wings that show a mixed pattern of mostly orange from above, including a small white spot within the orange. Forewings ...

If you want to draw in butterflies, small flowers in garden beds aren't your only option. This tree's yellow, fragrant ...

The female spicebush swallowtail butterfly was fluttering down, landing for a moment or two on a leaf on my sassafras tree and moving on to do the same thing on other leaves over and over again. It ...

IN the early part of 1868, Mr. W. H. Edwards began the issue of an iconographic serial publication on North American butterflies. 1 Planned as a quarterly, but with no expectation of extending beyond ...

Spring never has been more welcome. After more than a year of isolation, spirits across the country are being reinvigorated by daffodils, birdsong and longer days. In the western United States, ...

A group of third-grade students from Cedar Ridge Elementary School gained real-world experience in environmental advocacy and the inner workings of local government — all because of the monarch ...