The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...

Scientists in Alaska recently discovered a potentially new insect species—the Tanana Arctic, or Oeneis tanana, a copper-colored critter that may be the state’s only endemic butterfly. According to ...

(CNN) — The world’s largest butterfly tree of life is helping researchers determine where the winged insects originated when they first appeared on Earth about 100 million years ago. During the age of ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Insects are some of the hardest working, most intriguing creatures on the planet. These smallest of animals are essential to a healthy environment, and to our very existence. Many ...

CHESTERFIELD, Mo. — A lowly hissing cockroach at the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House in Chesterfield is causing a stir in the global scientific community. Invertebrate Keeper Nicole Pruess found one ...

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As the colorful wings of butterflies flickered through a bright blue sky at the Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary in Newtown, Jenny Hubbard fondly recalled her favorite memories from the six ...

Jerry Pugh had a rare experience this year: He saw a monarch butterfly in the wild. Though the Boise Parks and Recreation volunteer coordinator works to conserve the endangered butterfly, sightings ...

In a world first, scientists have discovered that painted lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui) have used favorable winds and a strategy of active flying and autopilot to fly across the world without ...

A monarch butterfly with a critical wing injury was given a second chance to fly after New York rescuers performed an intricate transplant procedure. The vulnerable insect was brought to Sweetbriar ...