The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme has released the latest annual results and they show that 2024 was one of the worst years on record for butterflies in the UK ...

A butterfly flits past the window at the Castlewood Canyon Visitor Center, where dozens of volunteers have gathered to learn ...

On a mid-summer day in the snow tussock grasslands of the rugged Lammermoor Range in Otago more than 40 years ago, butterfly ...

The popular concept has been depicted in everything from film to social media testimonials, but the real science behind the ...

More than 1,000 heath fritillaries have been recorded so far this year on the National Trust’s Holnicote Estate in Somerset.

The heath fritillary, one of the UK’s rarest butterflies, has seen a remarkable resurgence on the National Trust’s Holnicote ...

A West Somerset Exmoor estate has seen a resurgence of a rare butterfly species, once on the "brink of extinction".

Though there is something almost magical about crossing paths with a butterfly, most people stop to enjoy the sight without giving the encounter much thought. Unfortunately, the long-term existence of ...

Ahead of the Big Butterfly Count next month, one of the UK’s rarest butterflies – that was once on ‘the brink of extinction’ ...

Monarch Butterfly Population Status. Monarchs are among the most recognizable and best loved butterflies in North America, ...

Numbers of one of Scotland's fastest-declining butterflies have exploded following warm spring weather. A volunteer for national charity Butterfly Conservation counted a "staggering" 523 Small ...

A high school teacher in Oxnard, California, received an unexpected visitor from Southern Arizona earlier this month. On Oct. 17, a monarch butterfly tagged by a researcher near Canelo, Arizona ...