Common lawn plants like dandelions and violets that homeowners often try to eliminate are actually critical nectar sources for North American pollinators facing habitat loss.

Researchers discovered how a butterfly parasite has silently affected butterflies for over a century using museum samples.

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The first day of the Japan Swim, which is serving as a selection meet for this summer’s World Championships in Singapore, opened with a national record in the men’s 50-meter butterfly.

The number of monarch butterflies overwintering this year in Mexico has nearly doubled, according to the annual census released last week by the World Wildlife Fund in Mexico and their partners.

As the watery light filtered down through treetops, I closed my eyes and listened. What sounded like leaves rustling in the wind was the flickering wings of thousands of monarch butterflies as they ...

There's nothing quite like seeing a monarch butterfly spread its wings and glide through the air. It can certainly provide a sense of calm to life's everyday stressors. But the monarchs' numbers ...

Examining snakes, the researchers categorized how the animals used patterns of UV color and tested for factors that promote the evolution of UV color in snakes.

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. If the joy of seeing butterflies seems increasingly rare these days, it ...

The Florida white is among the butterflies experiencing the most drastic population loss, according to a new study. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 Butterfly populations ...