The delicate charm of a butterfly, with its fabulous fluttering wings and jewel-toned hues, is a sight to behold. Even so, you may have, at some point in your life, wondered if these colorful ...
In December of 2025, a Natural History Museum discovery write-up reported that researchers finally untangled a long-running identification problem involving neotropical hairstreak butterflies. A ...
We know about migrating species of butterflies, but they don't all fly south for the winter. Several overwinter in their home habitat and could use your help.
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Advocates say federal protections under the Endangered Species Act for species like the monarch and hellbender are overdue.
Darkness and light: four butterflies with ultra-black wings. (Courtesy: Richard Stickney/Museum of Life and Science) Many male butterflies have exceptionally black wings with optical properties that ...
Some butterflies have ultra-black wings that rival the blackest materials made by humans, using wing scales that are only a fraction as thick. Using scanning electron microscopy and computer ...
Butterflies are a delight to watch in the garden as they flutter from one flower to another feeding on nectar. They are like airborne flowers as they flash their colorful wings. For the past couple of ...
A monarch butterfly rests on a fennel at the Monarch Butterfly Garden in Pismo Beach, California. (Photo by Joyce Cory, CC BY 2.0, via Courthouse News) (CN) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on ...
In 1906, naturalist Albert Stewart Meek discovered a butterfly so large that it defied belief. Living high in the canopies of ...
Monarch butterflies are important culturally and ecologically across North America. Generations have watched in wonder as yellow-and-black striped caterpillars fold into green-and-gold chrysalises and ...