An expert says butterflies are facing major habitat loss because of global climate change."We are a part of this tower of Jenga blocks, but every piece of the tower that you move, every piece of the ...

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every year, at the beginning of November, one of the most impressive natural spectacles in the world takes place in Michoacán, Mexico. Hundreds of millions of migrating monarch butterflies settle in ...

Brian Cassie has been counting butterflies in Massachusetts for decades. He helped create Mass Audubon’s butterfly atlas in 1986 and founded the Massachusetts Butterfly Club shortly afterwards. Now, ...

Butterfly counts and flowering times shift earlier in warmer, low-snow years. Volunteers now lead Mt. Rainier surveys after federal research funding ended. Butterflies serve as effective indicators of ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A Utah-native subspecies of the silverspot butterfly was recently ruled as threatened under the Endangered Species Act by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Officials ...

Every year, millions of monarch butterflies venture across North America – though in far smaller clusters than decades ago. Monarch populations have plummeted due to habitat loss, pesticide use and ...

Butterfly populations have dropped by 22% across 554 recorded species in the United States, according to a new study in the ...

This is the remains of a leatherback turtle that died at sea. These turtles feed on jellyfish and, as they are able to regulate their body temperature, they can follow their prey into colder waters at ...

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A flash of orange darted between blue broadleaf lupine, magenta paintbrush and pink-white mountain daisies before the small butterfly disappeared into the sky. "That's another California Tortoiseshell ...