Billions of flies will be bred in an effort to fight a screwworm fly invasion. USDA plans to drop the insects over Mexico and ...

Mary Ann’s dedication and the scientific efforts at Disney illustrate how community action and innovation can unite to protect monarchs.

The monarch butterfly migration is one of the great wonders of the natural world. Every year millions of them travel immense ...

Butterfly species numbers dropped 22% across the U.S. between 2000 and 2020. Habitat loss, climate change, pesticides are the main causes.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) wants your help to choose a new design for the iconic horned lizard license ...

Despite some conservationists’ concerns, UC Davis researchers show that tropical milkweed has minimal impact on California monarch butterflies’ migratory patterns.

Reinertsen’s wife, ReWild Co-chair, Nancy DePas Reinertsen, decked out in her monarch gear — an orange T-shirt of numerous butterfly varieties, wrist to elbow blue butterfly gardening arm ...

A Malachite feeds in the Natural History Museum’s Butterfly Pavilion in Los Angeles on Tuesday, June 17, 2025 where visitors could find 24 species of butterflies and moths zooming around.

A Malachite feeds in the Natural History Museum’s Butterfly Pavilion in Los Angeles on Tuesday, June 17, 2025 where visitors could find 24 species of butterflies and moths zooming around.

The new species’ name, Ampatiri eloisae, carries rich meaning. In the Indigenous Calchaquí language of the region, ámpa means butterfly and tiri means ancient.

Monarch butterfly on milkweed. Image by Mediamarketing via Depositphotos. Perhaps the most significant factor in the monarch’s decline is the loss of milkweed, the only plant on which monarch ...