It’s such a treat to see butterflies in your backyard. But it seems that almost as quickly as they flit in, they dart off again, leaving you with barely a glimpse. These fascinating fliers, however, ...

Every fall, eastern monarch butterflies start an epic expedition, flying up to 3,000 miles south to the mountains of Mexico. They will spend the winter in suspended animation and six months later ...

The shift from warm summer to cool fall conditions can be stressful for many animals. Surviving each season requires a multitude of different physiological and behavioral traits that scientists are ...

Back in February, the Obama Administration committed $3.2 million toward saving the monarch butterfly. Environmental activists, deeply concerned by the monarch’s alarming decline, applauded the move.

ONE OF THE MOST WELL-KNOWN BUTTERFLY. YEAH. SAD EYES FORECASTING OUR FUTURE. METEOROLOGIST ROBERT SUHR TELLS US THERE ARE SOME STEPS, THOUGH, THAT YOU CAN TAKE TO HELP KEEP THIS BELOVED BUTTERFLY ...

Diversity metrics, essential for habitat evaluation in conservation, are often based on occurrences records with little consideration of behavioral ecology. As species use diverse habitats to perform ...

A study shows that contests of butterflies occur only as erroneous courtships between sexually active males that are unable to distinguish the sex of the other butterflies. A study shows that contests ...

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s summer exhibit Butterflies Alive! will open Saturday, May 29 in the Sprague Butterfly Pavilion. Featuring 1,000 live butterflies, the exhibit runs through ...

Male butterflies have genes which give them a sexual preference for a partner with a similar appearance to themselves, according to new research. In a study publishing February 7th in the open-access ...

A study shows that contests of butterflies occur only as erroneous courtships between sexually active males that are unable to distinguish the sex of the other butterflies. These findings by Tsuyoshi ...