MISSOULA, Mont. — The Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium joined a network of scientists contributing to nationwide research and publication on insect numbers and climate change. The Butterfly ...

An injured butterfly can now fly after a wing transplant from a dead insect. The monarch butterfly was brought to Sweetbriar ...

LANSING, Mich. — Move over monarch butterfly; a large and fast-moving dragonfly is also vying for designation as Michigan’s official state insect. A bill introduced this week in Lansing would ...

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Honeysuckle: A fragrant, sweet-nectared flower that butterflies love. Junonia: A genus of butterflies more commonly known as ...

The first insectile casualty of human activity in the United States was recorded around 80 years ago, new research has confirmed. The insect, the Xerces blue butterfly, died out in the mid-20th ...

Pacific Grove is known as ‘Butterfly Town USA’ for its role as an overwintering spot. As the insect’s population plummets, residents are coming to its rescue ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 3 (UPI) --Scientists say a newly discovered insect named Oregramma illecebrosa looks -- and probably acted -- like a butterfly, but predates the earliest iterations of the ...

Climate change is an important contributor to insect declines around the world, according to a new study published in the scientific journal PNAS that examined continuous long-term monitoring of ...

From within rocks, a few dozen fossils nearly too small to see with the naked eye can tell an important history of the evolution of moths and butterflies. About 200 million years ago, an ancient ...