You’ve likely heard of the “butterfly effect.” This theory was created in the 1960s by MIT meteorology professor Edward Lorenz who “suggested that the flap of a butterfly’s wings might ...

"We found that for these butterflies, big shifts in timing were generally bad. Populations with greater shifts were more likely to be declining," said Edwards, a recent WSU postdoctoral fellow and ...

Visit a magical place in Boston called Butterfly Hollow, where caterpillars change into butterflies in real time. What can ...

Lucas Foglia spent nearly four years traversing 17 countries, capturing images of painted lady butterflies, and the people and places that intersect with their epic migrations.

With a plastic bowl, she delicately scooped up a tiny jewel of an insect clinging to the tent: a Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly. “It's got a black, fuzzy body,” Henry said.

Butterflies are disappearing from the U.S. at an alarming rate Butterflies of all kinds of species, in all parts of the country, have declined by one to two percent per year since 2000.

Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back, the world's longest butterfly migration. In Constant Bloom ...

At-risk butterflies more likely to survive with human help. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 09 / 240904131019.htm ...

Some of the butterflies most in danger of fluttering out of existence fare better when their habitats are actively managed by humans, a recent study found. Scientists have long warned that insect ...