About 140 species of butterflies have occurred in Ohio. These insects are among our most popular “bugs” due to their often flashy and colorful patterns and extroverted diurnal habits. While people in ...

A few summers ago, I was walking my dog in a pasture near my house when a butterfly landed on my bare leg. It was a medium-sized black butterfly with orange crescents along the margins of its wings ...

Acting on a tip from a credible source, Pat Durkin led a search party through a northwestern Montgomery County farm one afternoon last week, traversing poison ivy, deer manure and mud in hopes of ...

Biologist Doug Taron was giving a tour of Elgin's Bluff Spring Fen earlier this month when he spotted a black-winged butterfly with red-orange crescents and creamy white spots resting idly on a plant ...