Reversing the butterfly’s calamitous decline requires restoring a national ethic of stewardship and recognizing that beauty and biodiversity are public goods worth preserving. Most of all ...

The caterpillars he was trying to find are so small, he said, it’s like they’re “living in a different world.” More than eight decades ago, a mesmerizing butterfly with iridescent cobalt ...

In the mid-1950s, while young Collins’s parents were on a jaunt to what was then the Belgian Congo, a neighbor gave him a walking stick that, with a quick twirl, became a butterfly net.

Funded by the U.S. Geological Survey, the study was the first to integrate such a vast dataset, its authors said. The findings revealed that 33% of butterfly species have experienced significant ...

In early December, federal wildlife officials will decide whether the monarch butterfly, which pollinates plants and flutters through backyards in nearly every U.S. state, is deserving of federal ...

But for decades, illegal logging threatened the butterfly's roosting spots, which once covered as much as 45 acres. It's now down to four and a half. The population of monarch butterflies in ...

The monarch butterfly, with its striking orange and black markings, has become a beloved species. But it’s struggling to survive. Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced an ...

But yeah, it's all the heat. It's all the sun. Anderson Cooper: You can actually hear the sound of butterfly wings. Court Whelan: Yeah. Anderson Cooper: Let's just be quiet for a second.

In the United States, perhaps no bug has been counted as often as the butterfly. "There's a lot of passion for them, they're very charismatic," says Collin Edwards, a quantitative ecologist at the ...