Learn how to attract and identify a painted lady butterfly and caterpillar. Find out what they eat and what host plants you ...

In a nutshell Butterflies choose mates based on vision, not scent or chance. Heliconius cydno butterflies are biologically wired to prefer mates with matching wing colors, and this preference is ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said it is reopening the public comment period for a proposed rule to list the monarch ...

A recent study showed butterfly populations decreased by 22 percent since 2000. Find out what flowers you can plant to ...

Researchers investigated the genetic and sensory mechanisms behind mate preferences in two subspecies of Heliconius cydno butterflies that have either yellow or white patches on their wings.

A new study compiling butterfly surveys across the country found a 22% overall decline, while seven species found in Maine ...

Mark Ruibal of Ruibal's and Dione Lineberry of Blue Ribbon Lady Landscaping share their tips for attracting pollinators to ...

is down 44% and the American lady butterfly, with two large eyespots on its back wings, decreased by 58%, Edwards said. Even the invasive white cabbage butterfly, “a species that is well adapted ...

The spicebush swallowtail caterpillar (Papilio troilus) is born black and white disguised as bird poop ... does the pupa of a ...

The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have ...

Promising review: "As a plus size woman, I tend to steer clear of the color red because I usually look like Santa Claus. But ...

Surely I am the only bride who ever packed a first-year Latin textbook on a nine-week camping honeymoon, but he was right ...