It’s National Pollinator Week, an annual event created to bring attention to the sharp decline in pollinator numbers due to habitat loss, pesticide use and climate change. Butterflies often capture ...
On a piercingly sunny morning in mid-June, there was a dizzying amount of activity in the front garden of a home in San Diego’s College Area, owned by a woman named Sara. But you had to look closely ...
With its vivid orange wings, black outline and white dots, the monarch butterfly is one of the most easily identifiable butterflies on the planet. Their ability to fly thousands of miles across North ...
Dr. Dotan Rotem, an open space ecologist at the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, explained that "butterflies are excellent ...
More monarch butterfly habitat may be added alongside crops in Iowa and across the nation, thanks to a yearslong Iowa State University research project. North American monarch populations have ...
It’s been a rough year for the migratory monarch butterfly. The colder spring in the upper Midwest negatively impacted population numbers and the butterfly was classified as endangered by the ...
Hammered by habitat loss and synthetic insecticides, the eagle, the abiding symbol of American strength and freedom, had all but vanished from our landscapes. From backyard birders to federal agencies ...
every year, at the beginning of November, one of the most impressive natural spectacles in the world takes place in Michoacán, Mexico. Hundreds of millions of migrating monarch butterflies settle in ...
Willow Neal receives funding from Central England NERC Training Alliance (CENTA). The Butterfly Conservation charity’s big butterfly count asks the UK public to record butterflies wherever they see ...
Karen Prante lost her “butterfly,” so she decided to do her part to save other butterflies.Prante’s son Nathan Prante-Price had Cockayne syndrome, a rare genetic disorder characterized by ...
The 2025 numbers were even worse than the previous year, which was pretty terrible itself.
Every winter, a marvelous spectacle occurs as hundreds of thousands of butterflies travel south across Taiwan in one of the ...