A butterfly is a flying insect known for its brightly colored wings and distinctive flight patterns. Belonging to the ...

The Butterfly Pavilion is celebrating its 30th anniversary bug bash with extra festivities this weekend.

Painted lady butterfly takes one of longest insect journeys ever recorded. It’s taken more than a decade, ... ANIMALS. Cougar travels 1,000 miles in one of longest recorded treks.

The migratory monarch butterfly, a North American icon with a continent-spanning annual journey, now faces the threat of extinction, according to a top wildlife monitoring group.

Nearly every state has a state insect or butterfly, with only two states not having one: Iowa and Michigan, as well as the District of Columbia. The first state to adopt a state insect was California.

A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.

Large butterfly-like insects known as Kalligrammatid lacewings, which fluttered through Eurasian fern- and cycad-filled woodland during the Mesozoic Era, have been extinct for more than 120 million ...

Insect tattoos come in all shapes and styles. From butterfly tattoos to dragonfly tattoos, check out these bug tattoos.

What’s the difference between an insect and a bug? Who buzzes in the grass? And what does a ladybug have to do with a lady?

Animals Credible chimera cockroach caught in Chesterfield Butterfly House The insect having two colors may seem like a novelty, but it could be a huge scientific discovery, the Missouri Botanical ...

Butterfly populations have dropped by 22% across 554 recorded species in the United States, according to a new study in the journal Science. "Our national-scale findings paint the most complete ...