Bob Erlich, an Evergreen Park resident, has devoted his retirement years to promoting and caring for butterflies — and ...

Butterflies are fragile and vulnerable to predation by all kinds of critters, from birds and reptiles to spiders and other ...

Climate change, pesticides, and deforestation are all factors contributing to the decline of these essential pollinators.

The team of volunteers is trying to save monarch butterflies by cultivating milkweed — the only plant where they lay eggs.

You won't have to wait long to attract a range of pollinators to your yard with any of these rapidly-growing trees. They'll ...

From the home of the world’s largest spider, to hotspots for globally threatened sea turtles, the International Union for ...

Getting "finned," or stabbed by a fish's fins, is never fun. Fishermen make a point to avoid flailing catches to avoid nasty ...

A blue wave butterfly pauses between sips of nectar from a flower. (Gary Robinson photo) Recently voted into the top three butterfly gardens in the nation ...

The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department’s Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Program is asking supporters to contribute to ...

The butterfly population in the U.S. has dropped more than 20% over the past two decades. Some species living in Connecticut ...

(Read about why the U.S. declined to list the monarch butterfly under the Endangered Species Act in 2020) There is hope for the resiliency of monarchs too, Walker says. Insects reproduce quickly ...

Environmental advocates have been urging the government to list them for more than ... of what it means to harm an endangered species. The monarch butterfly’s status, meanwhile, is in limbo.