In 1906, naturalist Albert Stewart Meek discovered a butterfly so large that it defied belief. Living high in the canopies of ...

A record number of one of the UK's rarest butterflies has been found at a nature site. More than double the number of silk shelters were found at Lydlinch Common this year compared to last year, ...

The St. Francis Satyrs now number around 1,000 and are found in an area of less than 20 acres. Melissa McGaw Nick Haddad is a tall, quick-to-smile Minnesotan. But lest the easy grin fool you, he is ...

One of the UK’s rarest butterflies is seeing a significant rise in numbers and range in Exmoor, conservationists have revealed. More than 1,000 heath fritillaries have been recorded so far this year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Purple crow butterflies are deeply beloved in butterfly-obsessed Taiwan. But experts worry that their miraculous migration could ...

Landowners have given a rare butterfly a major boost by letting their hedgerows grow wild, conservationists have said. Brown hairstreak butterflies have laid record numbers of eggs in parts of south ...

The arogos skipper is an endangered butterfly that was once common throughout much of the United States but has since been reduced to a few small populations. Researchers are studying a population in ...

Its 7-month development cycle is a biological challenge to replenishing the wild population. The butterfly is a specialist and lives in a very narrow ecological niche within Papua New Guinea’s Oro ...