The city of Phoenix has planted several gardens to support struggling monarch butterflies, including one at the downtown ...

Monarch butterflies have a keen sense of direction, even on cloudy days. This is because they have a magnetic compass to direct their migration in addition to navigating by the position of the sun ...

When summer rolls around, this decreasingly young man’s fancy inevitably turns to bugs. This mainly means butterflies here in mid-July, followed by the many ticks crawling up my legs after a day in ...

Butterflies don't actually sleep. Instead they rest, or become quiescent, at night or during the day when it's cloudy or cool. They rest with eyes open, typically hidden amid the foliage and ...

People are being asked to take part in counting the number of butterflies In Lincolnshire.It is part of a national survey to ...

One of Justin Bieber’s Swag tracks appears to be about breaking away from people who exploit him. In “Butterflies,” Justin ...

America’s butterflies are disappearing because of insecticides, climate change and habitat loss, with the number of the winged beauties down 22% since 2000, a new study finds.

Emile-Allain Séguy, better known as E.A. Séguy (1890-1985), was a prolific French designer. He was active during the Art ...

Butterflies are among the most imperiled, and monarchs are the butterfly that people most recognize. The eastern population of monarchs — the one that winters in Mexico and summers across the ...

It appears, he said, that while butterflies may have been scarce around Memorial Day, whatever eggs that sparser generation laid seem to have successfully hatched and reached adulthood in a greater ...

The Mitchell’s satyr butterfly is the only butterfly in Virginia that’s federally listed as endangered, and scientists are working to preserve the few meadows where these elusive butterflies still ...