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While much of Guåhan’s vegetation struggles under the intense tropical sun these days, a quiet harmony unfolds along the ...
They've seen more than half of their national populations vanish since 2000.  More than a fifth of the country’s butterfly population has declined over the past two decades, according to a 20-year ...
SINGAPORE - A rare butterfly species has set hearts aflutter in the wildlife community after sightings of the black-and-yellow winged insect at the Botanic Gardens emerged on social media this week.
SINGAPORE - A rare butterfly species has set hearts aflutter in the wildlife community after sightings of the black-and-yellow winged insect at the Botanic Gardens emerged on social media this week.
Scientists have discovered a new butterfly species in the Canadian Rockies, they report in ZooKeys. The Satyrium curiosolus, or “Curiously Isolated Hairstreak,” lives up to its name.
Butterfly abundance in the continental United States has crashed some 22% in only 20 years across 554 species counted, an alarming new scientific study involving Michigan State University found.
A research team has identified a new species of tiger swallowtail butterfly living in eastern parts of North America. In their study, published in the journal ZooKeys, Julian Dupuis, B.
Agartala: Tripura recorded a milestone in biodiversity documentation with the first-ever recording of the Banded Royal butterfly (Rachana jalindra indra), a rare species, in the state, wildlife ...
Take the speckled wood butterfly. This butterfly can sense the lengths of days as a larva (it is still not fully known how) and if they are suitably short, it gains extra weight and, as a pupa (or ...
Take the speckled wood butterfly. This butterfly can sense the ... it gains extra weight and, as a pupa (or chrysalis), hibernates. Correctly assessing when winter will arrive is crucial for ...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will then evaluate the comments and any additional information on the species and determine whether to list the monarch butterfly. Information about how to ...
U.S. officials moved Tuesday to protect the monarch, an iconic orange-and-black butterfly famous for its marathon migration across North America, under the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish ...