Pacific Grove is known as ‘Butterfly Town USA’ for its role as an overwintering spot. As the insect’s population plummets, residents are coming to its rescue ...

An injured butterfly can now fly after a wing transplant from a dead insect. The monarch butterfly was brought to Sweetbriar ...

While I suspect the majority of people here in Texas have seen a monarch butterfly, most probably don’t know that they make ...

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A research team of scientists from Freie Universität Berlin and Princeton University has provided insights into the origins of complete metamorphosis in insects. More than 60% of all animal species ...

Painted lady butterflies discovered in French Guiana — thousands of miles from their usual habitats — got there through a Herculean transoceanic flight. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly is critically endangered, with the last known larva living in a lab in New ...

A Yale-led study warns that global climate change may have a devastating effect on many butterfly populations worldwide, turning their species-rich, mountain habitats from refuges into traps. Think of ...

Cornell’s undergraduate entomology club, Snodwiggs, hosted a Butterfly Micrography workshop with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ first artist in residence, Andrea Strongwater ’70, on Feb ...