By the time late summer rolls around, most people assume the busy hum of bees and butterflies has come to a graceful end. The ...

As the weather starts to warm in Australia, you might notice the pleasant flutter of butterflies in your garden during the ...

A legal quirk leaves officials in at least a dozen states with little or no authority to protect insects. That’s a growing problem for humans. By Catrin Einhorn March 4, 2023 It’s tough being an ...

Monarch butterflies, for example, only lay their eggs on milkweed, and milkweed is all monarch caterpillars can eat. Without ...

Second, when I replaced the plants, I chose a wide variety of native species. Later, I found out that having a variety of ...

Under the cover of a layer of leaves, there can be adults, larvae and eggs of insects like butterflies, bees and moths.

It’s taken more than a decade, but scientists have cracked the case of these colorful insects found thousands of miles away from home. Painted lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui, shown resting on a bush ...

Painted lady butterflies discovered in French Guiana — thousands of miles from their usual habitats — got there through a Herculean transoceanic flight. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

Have you seen any dead butterflies lately? If so, the U.S. Geological Survey wants you to mail them their way, along with deceased moths and skippers. The agency is collecting specimens from six ...

Last month, government officials met in Washington, DC, for the first Monarch Butterfly Summit, just as the milkweed in the “Monarch Waystations” that are now ubiquitous across American lawns began to ...

The Florida white is among the butterflies experiencing the most drastic population loss, according to a new study. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 Butterfly populations in ...