Different cultures believe that the color of a butterfly can symbolize everything from creativity to evil. Here we explain ...

Oct. 29—"Monarch Magic," Butterfly Pavilion's monthlong celebration of the iconic butterfly, showcases the little pollinators and all they do for humanity, from their cultural impact to ecological ...

The headless horseman is out and headless butterflies are in. An Oklahoma City Zoo scientist is studying the headless ...

He wanted to test whether Lepidoptera, the order of flying insects that includes butterflies and moths, build up enough ...

Milkweed is no longer considered a “noxious weed” in Michigan, a monarch butterfly migration superhighway through the Great ...

A recent study from a scientist at the Oklahoma City Zoo is investigating the "Marie Antoinette" phenomenon in Monarch ...

The butterflies overwinter in the forests of the sacred fir trees ( Abies religiosa) at high altitudes. However, these ...

Jim Jenkins took this photo of a Western Tiger Swallowtail butterfly as it was nectar-feeding on Narrow Leaf Milkweed.

Dr. Emily Geest investigates the phenomenon of headless survival in butterflies, expanding knowledge on their nervous systems ...

Butterfly and bird populations plummeted in and around human habitats throughout Japan between fiscal 2005 and 2022, and ...

Eleven years ago, a close friend gave me a news tip. It was a story about a butterfly release in memory of infants who had ...

Employing a library of more than 1,000 chemicals, scientists investigated how agrochemicals affect insect populations. The scientists found that exposure to non-fatal amounts of 57 percent of the ...