Following a bad year for butterflies in 2024, the charity Butterfly Conservation is stressing it’s more important than ever that people take part in this year’s Big Butterfly Count. Last year the ...

Shortly after my dad died, I started encountering the most beautiful monarch butterfly — which was odd because my dad died in February, so butterflies were out of season. I spotted it everywhere, and ...

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A study in the United States found a dramatic 22% decline in butterfly populations between 2000 and 2020. Previous research has focused on a specific butterfly species or regions of the country. For ...

Butterflies have long been believed to represent transformation and change, thanks to the stunning metamorphosis they must go through to go from caterpillar to the winged pollinator so many of us ...

Researchers identified over 100 species that have dropped by more than 50 percent in the last two decades: "This is a wake-up call." Researchers compiled data on more than five hundred butterfly ...