Leafwing Butterfly: As the name suggests, the butterfly is known for its strong resemblance to a dead leaf when its wings are folded.

How did a US congressional candidate and the director of the National Butterfly Center end up in ... that’s how comfortable and confident I am. Laura Ingraham: I love it!! I’m not taking ...

Monarch butterflies are among the planet’s power migrators. Every autumn, a new generation of the orange and black insects are born in the northern United States and southern Canada. They then ...

Scientists have named a new group of butterflies after the villain Sauron from the Lord of the Rings novels. Experts hit on the name Saurona because the black rings on the insect's orange wings ...

The holes in this specimen show the passion butterflies have inspired for centuries. In 1906, English naturalist and explorer Albert Stewart Meek was two days deep into the rainforests of New Guinea ...

"Momma, look what we did in school today," exclaimed my 5-year-old as he pulled out a worksheet dedicated to the life cycle of a butterfly ... to see if he knew the names of the coins.

“Mothing is the new birding,” says Liti Haramaty, a researcher at Rutgers University and co-founder of National Moth Week.

Butterfly and moth wings can be stunningly beautiful. More importantly, some have colourful and elaborate patterns that serve as a defence against hungry predators. There are many butterfly and moth ...

With so many plants that attract hummingbirds and butterflies, your "to plant" list may be overflowing, but allow us to add ...

On the slopes of a volcano in central Mexico, biologist Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero and his team envision a climate refuge for oyamel fir trees and the monarch butterflies that depend on them.

In the 1950s, Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal - who were known by their codename "The Butterflies" - created an underground resistance movement against Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the ...