This volunteer-led movement brings nature home to neighbourhoods, one butterfly-friendly garden at a time. From inception to 2024, the foundation trained 1,800 Butterflyway Rangers in hundreds of ...

The authors' demonstration that impaired olfactory perception reduces caterpillar performance and increases susceptibility to parasitism is solid. These findings highlight the ecological significance ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 Butterfly populations in the United States have dropped by almost a quarter in the last two decades, according to a new analysis published ...

Two-thirds of studied species declined by more than 10%, the study said. Butterfly populations have dropped by 22% across 554 recorded species in the United States, according to a new study in the ...

Researchers compiled data on more than five hundred butterfly species across the United States from 2000 to 2020. Some species are faring better than others, but overall, butterfly numbers dropped ...

The study, published Thursday in the journal Science, is the most comprehensive tally of U.S. butterfly populations to date. Nick Haddad, a Michigan State University ecologist who co-wrote the ...

Still, researchers didn’t have enough data to include some of the most imperiled butterfly species, which probably experienced some of the steepest declines. And the data was quite likely biased ...