Some, like the Monarch butterfly, eat toxic plants as caterpillars and store those poisons. Normally, these toxins keep predators away and aren’t a big threat to humans. But injecting them?

Since then, its friend, the green hairstreak butterfly, has held on — barely — the numbers dwindling to less than 100 in the city some years back, its habitat of coastal dunes taken over by ...

Once Human’s Butterfly Emissary is one of the more useful Deviation companions you can collect in the survival MMO.

There are more than 120 species of butterflies in western Pennsylvania, and the North American Butterfly Association wants ...

Nonprofits working to stop human trafficking can use the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s playbook to move toward eradication.

As butterfly populations nationwide decline rapidly, these rare checkerspots appear to be making a comeback in some grassy corners of the Puget Sound region. And 20 years of intensive human effort ...

A species of tropical butterfly with unusually expanded brain structures displays a fascinating mosaic pattern of neural expansion linked to a cognitive innovation.

“One out of every three bites of food that we eat” is directly connected to a pollinator, Ron Magill, the communications director and a wildlife expert at Zoo Miami, told CNN. Around 30% of ...

Campbell’s work centers on the Karner blue butterfly, an endangered species in New York and nationwide, which can only eat blue lupine as a caterpillar. Wild lupine is a perennial that grows ...

More than half of the butterfly species in the UK are in long-term decline for the first time and experts say human actions are to blame. The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, run by a coalition of ...