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.

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

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

Museum Microlepidoptera curator Dr David Lees explains. There are more than 18,000 named butterfly species on the planet today, and about 140,000 different moth species. All of them evolved from a ...

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 ...