Cities like St. Louis and McAllen, Texas are already leading the way, systematically and purposefully integrating butterfly habitats into city parks and neighborhoods. Opinion: You color ...

From 2000 to 2020, the number of butterflies fell by 22% across the continental United States. That’s 1 in 5 butterflies lost. The findings are from an analysis just published in the journal Science ...

Although the researchers – who collaborated across the country – saw a 22% decline in the total number of butterflies, they ...

According to the proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the monarch butterfly as threatened, if enacted, ...

"Whenever you lose habitat, you lose these communities of plants, and many of times, when you lose plants that they lay their eggs on, you completely lose the butterfly, and we have seen that before," ...

"A reduction of carbon emissions, combined with proactive identification and preservation of key butterfly habitats and migratory corridors, will be key to ensuring that much of butterfly ...

For so many people, the classroom transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly is one of their earliest experiences with science and nature. Which is why it’s so distressing to know that the ...