Chris Johnson was volunteering at the university’s Natural Science exhibit, Butterflies! in October of 2014. Luckily, he was watching when a butterfly, newly emerged from the chrysalis began to open ...

Many insects see the world through hundreds of tiny lenses that are grouped together in a visual organ known as the compound ...

Conservation funding follows public admiration, and public admiration follows beauty. So what happens to the butterflies ...

Many insects see the world through hundreds of tiny lenses that are grouped together in a visual organ known as the compound eye. Behind each lens ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Purple crow butterflies are deeply beloved in butterfly-obsessed Taiwan. But experts worry that their miraculous migration could ...

UC San Diego biologists have identified the genetic switch that added a ninth photoreceptor to butterfly eyes, revealing how ...

A member of the Missouri Department of Conservation spotted an animal in Kansas City that's usually seen 4,000 miles away. . The department said in a social media post that assistant natural history ...

From the Miami blue to the Schaus' swallowtail, South Florida is home to many endangered and declining pollinator species that only exist here. The Miami blue butterfly alone has dropped by a minimum ...

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Four rare butterfly species have fluttered into view during my continuing quest to photograph the endangered Mount Charleston blue butterfly. Forest-sent consolation prizes that I can’t complain about ...

A conservation charity has planted elm trees, which are the preferred habitat of the white-letter hairstreak butterfly Rare butterflies have been spotted after a group of volunteers planted hundreds ...