Passionflower serves as a host plant to several butterflies, in particular the gulf fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) and zebra ...

One of the rarest butterflies in the country, the Schaus Swallowtail Butterfly, is benefitting from an event many people ...

effective camouflage in its pine rockland habitat in South Florida. This butterfly, whose only known host plant is the pineland croton, reaches adult sizes of 2.75 to 3 inches and displays sexual ...

Sometimes, nature's surprises come with wings. In a new study, scientists have pulled from a 35-year dataset to examine ...

In a new study, scientists pulled from a 35-year dataset to examine long-term population trends of the federally endangered Schaus’ swallowtail butterfly ... plant species on which to lay their eggs ...

RANGE: The Bartram?s scrub-hairstreak never strays far from its host plant, the pineland croton, which is found in South Florida?s Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. MIGRATION: This species does not ...

From 2003 to 2019, amateur butterfly enthusiast Harlan Radcliff spent his lunch breaks observing butterflies on the grounds ...

A critically endangered butterfly that lives in the southernmost part of Florida thrives in certain years. Researchers turned ...