MISSOULA, Mont. — The Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium joined a network of scientists contributing to nationwide research and publication on insect numbers and climate change. The Butterfly ...

DNA extracted from a preserved 93-year-old Xerces blue butterfly confirms it is first known insect to go extinct from urbanization in the US. The butterfly, with stunning, iridescent periwinkle wings, ...

The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly is critically endangered, with the last known larva living in a lab in New ...

While I suspect the majority of people here in Texas have seen a monarch butterfly, most probably don’t know that they make ...

The first insectile casualty of human activity in the United States was recorded around 80 years ago, new research has confirmed. The insect, the Xerces blue butterfly, died out in the mid-20th ...

Large butterfly-like insects known as Kalligrammatid lacewings, which fluttered through Eurasian fern- and cycad-filled woodland during the Mesozoic Era, have been extinct for more than 120 million ...

Every mum in Edinburgh has a tale to tell of their offspring ingesting some fluttering lovely being at Butterfly World, don’t they? Oh, just me? I thought it happened to everyone. Did you know with a ...

Katie VanBlaricum, 36, spotted a Monarch butterfly with a piece of its wing missing while working at her local zoo in Kansas. She immediately decided to repair the damaged insect after fearing it ...

Chafer, beetle, lice and other insects with sprig of buckthorn by Jan van Kessel, early 1650s, photo: Ashmolean Museum / Heritage Images / Getty Images What do we think of when we hear the word insect ...

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