An international team discovered new types of butterflies that lay hidden in plain sight at the Natural History Museum.

Hopefully, it’s a problem that butterfly researchers won’t have to face for too much longer. A new museum research project, known as AMISTAD, is combining ancient DNA, modern computing technology and ...

The Red Admiral butterfly is one of the most striking species in nature. Here’s how to identify it and the key facts to know.

Insects and the plants they depend on are migrating in response to climate change, but not always in the same way.

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Did you know that South Carolina has its very own state butterfly? The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) was designated as the official butterfly of the Palmetto State by Act Number 319 in ...

An international team of scientists have identified nine new species of butterflies using a combination of geographical, ...

For my 11th birthday, I received a perfect, weird, road-trip amusement: a book filled with pictures and descriptions to help kids decode the splatters of insects that smacked into the front of a ...

“Butterflies!” The cute little 4-year-old boldly shouted when someone asked her where pixie dust comes from. That memory was on my mind on a somewhat drab weekday morning recently as I stepped through ...

(CNN) — Challenging times are ahead for smaller, lighter-colored butterflies as Earth’s climate continues to warm, a new study has found. Unlike their relatives with larger wings and darker colors, ...