As children, many of us were enamored with butterflies. Picture a childhood neighborhood stroll or hike. A butterfly flies right ahead, zig-zagging from fence post to tree trunk, and finally lands on ...

How five proposed Trump Administration changes threaten protections for struggling species in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Dr. Dotan Rotem, an open space ecologist at the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, explained that "butterflies are excellent ...

For the first time in nearly two decades, a rare butterfly, known as the red-spotted patch butterfly, was spotted in South Texas. Located in the Rio Grande Valley in Mission, the National Butterfly ...

'Preserving butterflies is not just about preserving beauty and color, but about the stability and health of ecosystems on which we all depend,' says ecologist Dotan Rotem The post A third of Israel’s ...

WASHINGTON D.C. — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reopening the public comment period for a proposed rule to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

Every winter, a marvelous spectacle occurs as hundreds of thousands of butterflies travel south across Taiwan in one of the world’s most rare migrations.

More than 300 brown hairstreak butterfly eggs were recorded in hedgerows near Llandeilo this winter after decade of decline ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Eliza Grames, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE CONVERSATION) ...

The Iowa skipper butterfly, once prevalent in prairies across the middle of the U.S., is now at risk of extinction — according to the Center for Food Safety, which has petitioned federal agencies to ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the Fender’s blue butterfly will be downlisted from endangered to threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. This action is based on ...

Biologists deposited caterpillars of the rare frosted elfin butterfly on its host plant, the sundial lupine, in north Florida. Photo from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ...