U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced plans to list monarch butterflies as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
Butterfly and moth wings can be stunningly beautiful ... Eyespots aren't restricted to butterflies and moths - they appear in a number of places throughout the animal kingdom. There are fish, birds, ...
Hatchlings are killed young, to preserve their wings. The trade in rare butterflies—both legal and illegal—spans the planet, from catchers to middlemen to collectors. A catcher on Bacan island ...
A surprising number of our precocious ... some becoming real prodigies in the field. Seldom, however, do you find a butterfly expert among their ranks, or even among otherwise competent adult ...
The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History reports a significant decline in monarch butterfly numbers, raising concerns among scientists.