Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working ...

Taking a walk in the Midwest today is a different experience than it was 30 years ago. That's because butterfly populations there have been in "precipitous decline," with all 136 species examined in a ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — When most people think of the Pennsylvania Farm Show, they’ll think of animals like cows and horses. But some much smaller creatures are also part of the Farm Show, and they ...

Climate warming reduces nectar quality in flowers, leaving migrating monarch butterflies with less energy to survive winter.

An injured butterfly can now fly after a wing transplant from a dead insect. The monarch butterfly was brought to Sweetbriar Nature Center in Long Island, New York, with its wing bent and torn, unable ...

Researchers working with Jurassic fossils from China have discovered insects with remarkably butterfly-like features, even though the species vanished some 40 to 50 million years before the appearance ...

Gardeners are scrambling to help the threatened monarch butterfly by planting more milkweed, the insect's host plant. Drought, loss of habitat and pesticides have decimated stands of milkweed along ...

The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World By Oliver Milman, pub. W.W. Norton & Co If the downside to a world without bugs could be summed up in an image, it might be a picture ...

The world has lost more than one quarter of its land-dwelling insects in the past 30 years, according to researchers whose big picture study of global bug decline paints a disturbing but more nuanced ...

Butterfly garden ideas include nectar and host plants, water access, and pest-minimising practices to attract and support ...