It’s hard to overlook the brilliant orange and black wings of a monarch butterfly as it moves through a garden of flowers. It’s also hard to believe that the life cycle of this incredibly colorful ...

The white-letter hairstreak butterfly might be making a comeback in Scotland, as naturalists found eggs from the insect for the first time in more than 100 years. Ian Kirk/CC BY 2.0 Naturalists in ...

When Canadian conservation enthusiasts head out to find monarch eggs, it’s always with a magnifying glass and a notebook. Hundreds of Canadian volunteers are taking part in a program to find monarch ...

It’s a sunny July afternoon, and Grayslake neighbors Annie Lawson and Heather Bauer are standing at the side of Lawson’s home, carefully going through her garden of milkweed plants. Lawson points at ...

Kim Moss hunched over plants with her camera for hours in Grand Teton National Park this summer, hoping to capture the Parnassius clodius butterfly laying its eggs. She accomplished her goal. Moss, ...