“Since I started gardening, I have discovered several skipper species. At the neighborhood teaching garden, the kids like learning about the butterflies that visit.

There is a group of day-flying butterflies which look rather like moths, being short, stubby, and with fat bodies. These are ...

The bleached sandhill skipper, a butterfly that can only be found beside hot springs near the Nevada-Oregon border, will soon be protected under the Endangered Species Act.

RENO, Nev.— Responding to a Center for Biological Diversity petition, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed Endangered Species Act protection for the bleached sandhill skipper.This ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service will conduct a one-year status review of the Iowa skipper butterfly to determine whether it deserves protection under the Endangered Species Act.. Contrary to its ...

The data showed both species diversity and overall numbers are in decline: Nationwide, the authors estimate butterfly abundance fell by 22% between 2000 and 2020.