Every summer in southeastern Pennsylvania, I see several species of pretty butterflies in abundance, but at different times, prolonging the beauty of the butterfly season. Though they are here in good ...

Conventional wisdom is that if you cultivate host plants, butterflies will come. Take, for example, milkweed. After declining monarch populations began making headlines in the late 1990s, people ...

BALDWIN -- The Karner blue butterfly is one finicky flutterer. Nature buffs won't see this tiny, ornate insect just anywhere -- caterpillars feed only on wild lupine plants; adults are found in flat ...

My interest in butterflies has been renewed after scant attention paid for several decades. I am building a file (small to date) of butterfly photos taken on birding outings. (I look for birds, but I ...

I have been an avid butterfly watcher for many years now, and I follow this hobby with great passion, alongside bird watching ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing protections for monarch butterflies as future generations of children are at risk of never seeing one of the vivid orange and black creatures in the ...

A unique butterfly breeding experiment gave researchers an opportunity to study the physical and genetic changes underlying the evolution of structural color, responsible for butterflies' iridescent ...

As monarch butterflies progress on their long autumnal migration to Mexico they’re easier to spot around here. Still, experts say, there aren’t as many of the colorful insects passing through these ...