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.

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 ...

Scientists previously believed this butterfly belonged to the Satyrium semiluna species. During a visit to Blakiston Fan in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, in Canada’s Rocky Mountains ...

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 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 ...

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 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.

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 ...