I really want to spread the word that we should not give up right now,” said Isis Howard, a conservation biologist with the Xerces Society.

A CRITICALLY endangered butterfly, the Wolkberg Zulu, finally has a chance at survival after a conservation servitude was established in Limpopo to protect it. A century since its discovery in 1925, ...

One of the rarest butterflies in the country, the Schaus Swallowtail Butterfly, is benefitting from an event many people ...

Millions of western monarchs used to return to coastal California every year, but the population has plummeted in recent ...

The proposed 1.3 million square foot warehouse in Brisbane could endanger butterfly, plant, and other animal species, environmental advocates say.

What measures are suitable for providing better living conditions for insects in typical german landscapes? This question was investigated by a research team from the University of Würzburg. The ...

The Schaus’ swallowtail butterfly lives in far South Florida and is incredibly rare. But in a surprise twist, more of them are found in years after a hurricane. Here’s a look at why, based on research ...

Sometimes, nature's surprises come with wings. In a new study, scientists have pulled from a 35-year dataset to examine ...

New Jersey removed bald eagles from the state’s endangered species list, David Blauvelt of Hamburg, N.J., spotted one on his ...

Monarch butterflies in the western U.S. have dropped to just 9,119 this year. In 2023, the count was 233,394, meaning a 96% decline.

The count of 9,119 butterflies this winter is a sharp decline from 200,000 reported in the past three years, but slightly up from 2,000 monarch reported in 2020.