The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) recently proposed listing Jamaica’s most imperiled butterfly, the Jamaican kite ...

Sir David Attenborough's profound influence on public understanding of the natural world has led countless researchers to ...

Hiding in plain sight in Japan, researchers identified a new, “extremely rare” butterfly species with a remarkable wingspan of 3.5 inches—the first in its subfamily. Initially discovered in 1988, the ...

Rare white-letter hairstreak butterflies have been spotted after volunteers planted elm trees.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The once rare brown argus butterfly is on the ...

America's beloved monarch butterfly is facing possible listing as a threatened species. The Trump administration is expected to announce this week if it supports protecting the monarch under the ...

Biologists deposited caterpillars of the rare frosted elfin butterfly on its host plant, the sundial lupine, in north Florida. Photo from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ...

The Orange tip butterfly is doing well, with numbers significantly higher than in the 1970s Increasingly warm and sunny weather over the last half century – driven in part by climate change – has ...

A big wildfire in a mountain range just west of Las Vegas has put at risk the Mount Charleston blue butterfly, a rare species found in the U.S. The fire is dying down, but it may be weeks before ...