Butterflies sorta creep me out. First, they start out as another bug and then they cocoon themselves. Who does that? And just take a look at this butterfly egg, it’s borderline alien looking. National ...

AMES, Iowa — Kim Moss hunched over plants with her camera for hours in Grand Teton National Park this summer, hoping to capture the Parnassius clodius butterfly laying its eggs. She accomplished her ...

These microscopic photos of butterfly eggs by National Geographic, Prüftechnik Uri, and the University Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland are truly fascinating. I find them even more beautiful ...

Clad in all kinds of ornate and beautiful colors, the butterfly is a winged insect that flies from flower to flower, consuming the rich, sugary nectar inside. There are nearly 20,000 species of ...

The number of rare butterflies found on a nature reserve remains stable despite increasing climate and habitat threats, a wildlife trust has found. A team of volunteers from Berkshire, Buckinghamshire ...

When Canadian conservation enthusiasts head out to find monarch eggs, it’s always with a magnifying glass and a notebook. Hundreds of Canadian volunteers are taking part in a program to find monarch ...

As July sunlight pokes through the trees, a butterfly egg rests gently in Wojciech Poreba’s palm as he sifts through milkweed leaves at Hamlet Park in Cottage Grove. At age 25, Poreba has four years ...

Butterfly has acquired Pete and Gerry’s Organics, a Monroe, NewHampshire-based producer of organic eggs. No financial terms were disclosed. As a result of the transaction, British Columbia Investment ...

Function and form beget art in a world where life is less than half a millimetre wide. You’ve probably seen tiny specks like these on leaves or twigs without realising what they are or appreciating ...

Los Angeles reader Millicent Stoller wrote to our SoCal Garden Clinic saying she was trying to plant for monarch butterflies. Stoller said she was growing two milkweeds, but both had become inundated ...