Sometimes, nature's surprises come with wings. In a new study, scientists have pulled from a 35-year dataset to examine long-term population trends of the federally endangered Schaus's swallowtail ...

On a sunny morning at the Warrigal Shell Cove aged care facility in Shellharbour, James Tebbutt is welcoming residents into his portable butterfly enclosure. Colourful butterflies fly around the ...

What Is a Weed? Not everyone agrees on which plants are weeds, or what to do about them. Not all weeds need to be eradicated.

Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV ...

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Scientists usually study butterfly lifespans by marking them, and then either recapturing or observing them later. Researchers can also estimate a butterfly’s age by the condition of its wings. All ...

Monarch butterflies on a flowers in garden on bank of the Lake Ontario in Toronto, Canada, September 13, 2016. Image by emkaplin via Depositphotos. Butterflies, with their delicate wings and ...

Butterflies represent one of the largest animal groups on Earth, yet antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) of this group are less studied in comparison with their moth counterparts. This study employed an ...

The migration of Monarch Butterflies is an incredible natural phenomenon. We’re all familiar with the stunning beauty of the fragile monarch butterfly, its bright orange wings, and intricate black ...