Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back ...

Delias sambawana, a butterfly that hails from Indonesia, at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace and phylogeny by Hillis, Zwickl, and Gutell When Akito ...

Initially thinking they were flowers, he approached carefully and realised they were butterflies. To preserve the moment, he took a rapid burst of photos. Male eros blue butterflies gather in large ...

Hatchlings are killed young, to preserve their wings. The trade in rare butterflies—both legal and illegal—spans the planet, from catchers to middlemen to collectors. A catcher on Bacan island ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Yale researchers were able to create a global map of butterfly diversity “hot-spots.” These high-altitude environments are most at-risk from climate change and ecosystem ...