Butterflies are common throughout the world; however, there is more to them than meets the eye. From optical illusions in ...

Wild Things columnist Eric Brown urges readers to volunteer for a national butterfly survey and predicts the spring sunshine will mean ...

Data showing the migratory monarch's decline were too precautionary, prompting the IUCN to change its status from endangered to vulnerable.

While the mosquito might be an obvious choice, dragonflies can stop on a dime at 35 miles an hour and even fly backward.

There are more than 120 species of butterflies in western Pennsylvania, and the North American Butterfly Association wants ...

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

Cattle are to graze on a hill on Llanymynech for the first time since the 1970s in order to help local wildlife.

It is the height of summer in Europe, a time when many people head out into nature or to enjoy urban greenspaces . But over ...

As the climate warms, many species are shifting northward into areas that were previously too cold for them. A study, ...

The Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) stands out among the estimated 20,000 butterfly species worldwide as the undisputed king of migration. With its distinctive orange wings laced with black veins ...

U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and U.S. Representative Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) introduced a bill on Friday aimed at preventing the Western Monarch butterfly and other important pollinators from ...

That’s when they discovered three new species of deep-sea spiders. In addition to living exclusively in methane seeps and hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, the Sericosura sea spiders displayed a ...