Yellow crazy ants (Anoplolepis gracilipes) threaten invertebrates on many tropical islands, but little work has been done in continental ecosystems. We found 4.4–16.0 times more cruiser butterfly ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Ecologists Friday afternoon continued their re-introduction of the Variable Checkerspot butterfly to the Presidio in San Francisco, a city known for the number of butterflies ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. They are ravenous and ...

Shervin Hess / Oregon Zoo Conservationists from the Oregon Zoo and its partners released 483 Oregon silverspot butterfly larvae in the coast range last week, marking the final group of the season in ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature placed the monarch butterfly on its Red List of Threatened Species as endangered in July, but despite decades of declining numbers, the delicate ...

NSBRI: Join us for daily updates of the STS-129 “Butterflies in Space” experiment, and study butterfly life cycles and behaviors in microgravity and on Earth. Images are downloaded from the ...

A no-mow patch helps caterpillars live long enough to turn into butterflies and moths Making the world safer for butterflies can be as easy as doing a bit of nothing. Letting some part of a yard go ...

The beautiful colors in our gardens don’t have to all come from flowers. Texas butterflies bring in color on the wing. Everyone can enjoy a butterfly garden this summer if they understand several ...