This means that for every five butterflies you might have seen in your garden two decades ago, there are now only four. The ...

A Michigan House bill aims to designate the black swallowtail butterfly as the official state butterfly, highlighting its prevalence and beauty.

Disney has announced the final day of operation for “It’s Tough to Be a Bug!” in Disney’s Animal Kingdom is March 16, 2025. With the attraction set to permanently close to make way for “Zootopia: ...

The findings revealed that 33% of butterfly species have experienced significant population declines over the past two decades, with 107 out of the 342 species examined losing more than half of ...

We found declines in just about every region of the continental U.S. and across almost all butterfly species. Overall, nearly one-third of the 342 butterfly species we were able to study declined ...

Still, researchers didn’t have enough data to include some of the most imperiled butterfly species, which probably experienced some of the steepest declines. And the data was quite likely biased ...