20 totally amazing butterfly species ©Shutterstock If your heart flutters at the sight of a butterfly in flight, then surely among the 17,500 or so species found worldwide is all manner to amaze you.

Scientists are grappling with a stark population decline of the western monarch butterfly after the species’ numbers hit a ...

The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in ...

The Tomares Nesimachus, among Israel’s 14 protected butterfly species, faces a precarious future due to its complete dependence on the large-fruited milk-vetch plant as a place to lay its eggs. While ...

Butterflies have been in the news after a rare butterfly flew 3,000km from Japan to Hong Kong in a migratory record.

“With all of these ongoing activities ... Baum said the federal proposal is different from that of other species designations because the butterfly can be found in multiple places, which ...