AMES, Iowa — Kim Moss hunched over plants with her camera for hours in Grand Teton National Park this summer, hoping to capture the Parnassius clodius butterfly laying its eggs. She accomplished her ...

Western monarch butterflies spend winter gathered in California's coastal groves. Photo by Steve Corey via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 Millions of monarch butterflies once covered the trees ...

Big spots on butterfly wings actually can mimic the eyes of predators, a new study finds, reviving a partly discredited textbook truth with fresh evidence. In lab tests, images of butterflies with big ...

There’s only one host plant for a monarch butterfly—milkweed! Choose native varieties for your area such as common milkweed, butterfly weed, swamp milkweed and showy milkweed. Create a monarch haven ...