Hoping to attract a flurry of butterflies to your garden to bring good luck? Knowing what types of food different insects eat can be helpful if you're starting a pollinator garden or want to help them ...

These questions about Painted Lady butterflies were answered by second-graders at Antioch Unified School District in Antioch, Calif. Q: What do caterpillars eat? A: They eat ground-up mallow leaves ...

Ayesha Rascoe speaks with conservation biologist Karen Oberhauser about why the migratory monarch butterfly was just declared endangered, and what can be done in response. Millions of monarch ...

While more intense and prolonged drought is the most obvious impact, a growing concern is the effect of extreme heat -- particularly on butterflies."Because butterflies are some of the most sensitive ...

During the past four decades, scientists have documented a 1.6 percent decline per year in the number of butterflies in the southwestern United States. Doesn’t sound like much? Consider how that ...

File photo: A Monarch butterfly pauses in a field of Goldenrod on Sept. 11, 2020, at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa. The International Union of Conservation of Nature officially ...

Bee populations are declining. More than half of the bat species in the United States are in severe decline or listed as endangered. And international scientists recently announced the monarch ...