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 ...

Finally, in 1999, a cheer went up among butterfly enthusiasts when a photographer discovered 35 specimens in Bahia Honda State Park, which then housed the only wild population of Miami blues — but ...

Agartala: Tripura recorded a milestone in biodiversity documentation with the first-ever recording of the Banded Royal butterfly (Rachana jalindra indra), a rare species, in the state, wildlife ...

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

Like all butterflies, the Bay checkerspot is extremely vulnerable to pesticides, which contaminate its host plants and poison its larvae. To protect species from toxic chemicals, the Center is ...

All the butterflies were dead by Aug. 25. According to the Environment Ministry’s red list on endangered species, the Ogasawara blue butterfly was categorized as “Critically Endangered ...