Sometimes, it pays to stop and smell the flowers. A photographer has captured remarkable photos of endangered butterflies flying off flowers at a nature preserve in the U.K., British news agency SWNS ...

Distinctive Markings: Rust-colored with black checker-like pattern and silvery spots on the underside of the hindwing. The female is slightly darker than the male. Wingspan: 2 1/2 to 4 inches Habitat: ...

Ahead of the Big Butterfly Count next month, one of the UK’s rarest butterflies – that was once on ‘the brink of extinction’ – is rising in numbers. The heath fritillary butterfly, nicknamed the ...

At Fort Indiantown Gap in northern Lebanon County, a vast stretch of grassland houses the only population of the rare regal fritillary butterfly in the eastern United States. Several of these ...

The Fort Indiantown Gap military base in Lebanon County is home to the world's only surviving population of the eastern regal fritillary, a large butterfly that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

The fluttery flight of butterflies has so far been somewhat of a mystery to researchers, given their unusually large and broad wings relative to their body size. Now researchers at Lund University in ...

On a recent trip to Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area to photograph birds, I wasn’t having much luck, so I shot pictures of butterflies. This is a great spangled fritillary that was moving between ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it would seek protections for the regal fritillary, a large non-migratory butterfly with orange and black markings. It's suffering from habitat loss in ...

Mt. Washington, the peak that is home to some of the world’s worst weather, is also home to a rare butterfly, recently rediscovered and now being studied by biologists who are hoping to find out what ...

Lower Loup NRD and Nebraska Forest Service staff have identified a rare butterfly in the Lower Loup NRD Arboretum in Ord. While working in the Arboretum on the morning of July 11, 2022, District ...

After years of effort, the Gulf Fritillary, scientifically known as the agraulis vanillae, is well on its way to becoming Louisiana’s official state butterfly. The state Senate voted Tuesday 36-0 to ...