Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I love nothing more on a sunny afternoon than sitting on my patio, sipping on a cool drink, and butterfly spotting. I live in the ...

The fading of butterflies starts with a quiet absence. It begins with hardly any caterpillars wriggling from plants and even fewer butterflies stopping to take nectar from a milkweed bush. Across the ...

Pesticides, habitat loss and climate change have taken their toll on the beloved insects. But the experts working with them still find hope for their future ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. If the joy of seeing butterflies seems increasingly rare these days, it ...

Monarch butterflies are among the most beloved insects in North America. They are brightly colored and unique, both as caterpillars and later as mature insects. Monarchs are found in every U.S. state ...

The Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens feature almost 300 acres of plants and flowers — many native — suited to the northerly climate, and native butterflies like this one in this August 2022 photo.

Ashland photographer David Lee Myers has been devoted to butterflies for 30 years. The author of “Wings in the Light: Wild Butterflies in North America,” volunteers his expertise on critical butterfly ...

A juniper hairstreak butterfly in Clermont County. Volunteers observed 177 of these butterflies during the 2025 Clermont County Butterfly Count. Local citizen scientists are counting butterflies this ...

"This work, along with a companion volume on caterpillars, was never published, and resides today in the Rare Book Collection of the American Museum of Natural History's Library in New York"--Page [4] ...