Eliza Grames, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE CONVERSATION) If the joy of seeing butterflies seems increasingly rare these days, it isn’t your imagination. We found ...

Monarch butterflies are migrating north and have been spotted in states near Michigan. Although their wintering population doubled this year, monarchs have experienced a significant overall ...

Climate change, too, is an increasing threat as dramatic weather events such as hurricanes and drought become more common along the butterflies’ southern migration routes. The western monarch ...

Southwest Florida offers a variety of locations to view butterflies in a natural habitat. The Tom Allen Butterfly House has free guided tours available three days a week. Naples Botanical Garden ...

For this study, researchers wanted to understand overall butterfly population trends across the U.S. They gathered records of 12.6 million individual butterflies across 554 species, from more than ...

The Florida white is among the butterflies experiencing the most drastic population loss, according to a new study. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 Butterfly populations ...

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Any individual flower you put out it likely to get visited,” said Nick Dorian, a post-doctoral researcher at the Chicago Botanic Garden who studies butterflies. All it takes is planting a few ...

America’s butterflies are disappearing because of insecticides, climate change and habitat loss, with the number of the winged beauties down 22% since 2000, a new study finds. The first ...

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