The silver spotted skipper butterfly is one of the most common butterflies caught during the census. Cristina Santiestevan Counting butterflies is one of those things that sound easy but isn’t. Six of ...

The Butterfly Conservation wants everyone to participate. Calling all nature conservationists! The Butterfly Conservation, with the help of Sir David Attenborough, a longtime naturalist and ...

North Carolina’s state butterfly is hard to miss — and also easy to attract to backyards by planting a variety of native plants. The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) can be bright yellow ...

New research into the particulars of butterfly DNA has unmasked as many as nine new butterfly species previously lumped together with known butterfly species. The interloping butterflies, all found in ...

Most people will never see a Mount Charleston blue butterfly in the wild, so they may have to settle for a pretty poster commissioned by an online lender. Chicago-based NetCredit has launched a public ...

Researchers see precipitous drop in annual migrating popuation. March 21, 2010— -- Monarch butterflies normally find sanctuary in the mountains of Mexico, away from the cold winters of North ...

During the past four decades, scientists have documented a 1.6 percent decline per year in the number of butterflies in the southwestern United States. Doesn’t sound like much? Consider how that ...