Butterflies, thousands of swooping, iridescent butterflies, are set to charm visitors at Butterfly Jungle, running from Saturday to April 15 at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The butterflies have been ...

SEATTLE - Butterflies are said to symbolize new beginnings. Now dozens of tropical butterflies are getting a new beginning here in Seattle, after they were caught up in delivery delays due to ...

Elly Maxwell, staff entomologist at Dow Gardens, prepares to pin a small shiny Clearwing butterfly pupa to a shelf, on March 2, 2017.

As many as 1,200 people living around the forests of coastal Kenya and Tanzania have turned to butterfly farming to make a living. Many of them were once loggers who now defend the forest. Three ...

Nature, it seems, strategizes so species survive. That’s why a caterpillar crawling amid greenery turns into a green pupa, blending into its surroundings and lessening the chance a bird will make it ...

The Woodland Park Zoo's seasonal exhibit "Butterflies & Blooms" is back again with approximately 1,000 butterflies of more than 15 species from all over North America. First opened in 1998, ...

One of the best-loved sights outside is a brightly colored butterfly. Surprisingly, the life of the showy butterfly depends on the humble, inconspicuous caterpillar that precedes it. Fritillaries, ...

I talked about your question with my friend Allan Felsot. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. He told me cocoons are mostly silk. But they’re usually made by moths. A butterfly ...

MALE zebra longwing butterflies sit on the pupae of females for up to 10 days before they hatch, ensuring they get first dibs at reproducing with them. But how do they know that they’re sitting on a ...

Good tidings are in the offing for butterfly farmers within the Arabuko Sokoke Forest in Kilifi County after a team of renowned international butterfly exhibitors and suppliers from all over the world ...