Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once common across the UK, the brown hairstreak butterfly had seen numbers fall significantly [Iain H Leach] Record numbers of ...

New research shows climate change may push monarch butterflies farther south and make their long migration harder in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As July sunlight pokes through the trees, a butterfly egg rests gently in Wojciech Poreba’s palm as he sifts through milkweed ...

Clad in all kinds of ornate and beautiful colors, the butterfly is a winged insect that flies from flower to flower, consuming the rich, sugary nectar inside. There are nearly 20,000 species of ...

At the Cincinnati Nature Center, patches of native plants are the setting for a sort-of scavenger hunt. Research ecologist Tess Mulrey stops at each milkweed plant she sees. “Each individual plant is ...

It’s a sunny July afternoon, and Grayslake neighbors Annie Lawson and Heather Bauer are standing at the side of Lawson’s home, carefully going through her garden of milkweed plants. Lawson points at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The adult Brown Hairstreak (Image: Iain H Leach) Rare butterfly eggs have reached record numbers following changes to hedgerow ...

Three scientists trudged Friday through a riverside preserve near Modesto, in search of a certain kind of caterpillar. Dos Rios Ranch has joined the effort to reverse the decline of the Western ...

As July sunlight pokes through the trees, a butterfly egg rests gently in Wojciech Poreba’s palm as he sifts through milkweed leaves at Hamlet Park in Cottage Grove. At age 25, Poreba has four years ...

Record numbers of rare butterfly eggs have been discovered after landowners let their hedgerows grow wild. Once common across the UK, the brown hairstreak had seen numbers fall significantly. But the ...