How five proposed Trump Administration changes threaten protections for struggling species in the San Francisco Bay Area.

As children, many of us were enamored with butterflies. Picture a childhood neighborhood stroll or hike. A butterfly flies right ahead, zig-zagging from fence post to tree trunk, and finally lands on ...

More than 300 brown hairstreak butterfly eggs were recorded in hedgerows near Llandeilo this winter after decade of decline ...

Hiding in plain sight in Japan, researchers identified a new, “extremely rare” butterfly species with a remarkable wingspan of 3.5 inches—the first in its subfamily. Initially discovered in 1988, the ...

Thanks to a sunny spring, the population of a rare butterfly has nearly doubled in the English west country, The Guardian reported. The heath fritillary butterfly, nicknamed the woodman's follower, is ...

WASHINGTON D.C. — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reopening the public comment period for a proposed rule to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

Butterflies play a crucial role in pollination and serve as a food source for other species, making their decline a significant ecological concern. Researchers analyzed data from more than 76,000 ...

In the early 1990s, Keith Willmott and a friend, both undergraduate students from the United Kingdom, arrived in Ecuador with ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the Fender’s blue butterfly will be downlisted from endangered to threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. This action is based on ...

The discovery of seven rare species at National Trust for Scotland sites in 2025 is a “powerful sign” its conservation efforts are working, the charity has said. Corncrake chicks, lichen, a rare ...