Butterflies, thousands of swooping, iridescent butterflies, are set to charm visitors at Butterfly Jungle, running from Saturday to April 15 at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The butterflies have been ...

Jana Johnson coaxes a Palos Verdes blue butterfly onto her finger. "After butterflies came into my life, I completely reinvented myself," she says. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) For the record ...

I talked about your question with my friend Allan Felsot. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. He told me cocoons are mostly silk. But they’re usually made by moths. A butterfly ...

The scientific name of a butterfly is Lepidoptera. Discover the classification of butterflies, family of butterfly, and more.

Spring is around the corner, and there’s a buzz in the air at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park as keepers prepare for butterfly season. The zoo’s annual Butterfly Jungle event takes place Mar. 16 through ...

It’s been rumored that the monarch butterfly has made its return to Ohio. For those who marvel at the majesty of butterflies, you can get a closer look at over 60 species of them at the “Amazing ...

One of the best-loved sights outside is a brightly colored butterfly. Surprisingly, the life of the showy butterfly depends on the humble, inconspicuous caterpillar that precedes it. Fritillaries, ...

An eastern lubber grasshopper, or Romalea guttata sits on a leaf at the Insect Zoo at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Photos by Jenny Marder. And now, an end-of-the-week pause to celebrate ...

The elephants may have been dreaming when it happened, and the lions snoring away. But nearby, around 2:30 a.m. one night about two weeks ago, another beast was shapeshifting with the speed and ...

THERE was a Chinese philosopher who all his life pondered the problem whether he was a Chinese philosopher dreaming that he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming that she was a philosopher. All ...

A new initiative to help conserve indigenous forest tree cover in Taita Taveta County has been initiated. Nature Kenya under the 'People Partner with Nature Programme' has started a programme to ...

11:46 a.m. May 25, 2023: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated Rudi Mattoni was a professor at UCLA. He was a lecturer. His 1994 survey was also not funded by the Urban Wildlands Group.