Every winter, a marvelous spectacle occurs as hundreds of thousands of butterflies travel south across Taiwan in one of the world’s most rare migrations.

The St. Francis Satyrs now number around 1,000 and are found in an area of less than 20 acres. Melissa McGaw Nick Haddad is a tall, quick-to-smile Minnesotan. But lest the easy grin fool you, he is ...

A member of the Missouri Department of Conservation spotted an animal in Kansas City that’s usually seen 4,000 miles away. . The department said in a social media post that assistant natural history ...

For the first time in nearly two decades, a rare butterfly, known as the red-spotted patch butterfly, was spotted in South Texas. Located in the Rio Grande Valley in Mission, the National Butterfly ...

TWIN LAKE, MI — A tiny, rare butterfly has become “the mascot” for ecological efforts in West Michigan. The silvery-winged Karner blue butterfly flitted among native spotted bee balm and butterfly ...

It sounds strange, but a rare butterfly has been found by federal wildlife officials to be thriving on U.S. military bases. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife endangered species expert says the frosted elfin ...

Landowners have given a rare butterfly a major boost by letting their hedgerows grow wild, conservationists have said. Brown hairstreak butterflies have laid record numbers of eggs in parts of south ...

While most of us have struggled with recent high temperatures, there’s one group of locals loving the heat, and this last few weeks of summer is a great chance to get out and see them.