In a first-of-its-kind study, Yale researchers were able to create a global map of butterfly diversity “hot-spots.” These ...

Think quick and name a type of butterfly. Monarch, swallowtail, painted lady, blue and hairstreak probably come to mind. Now name a type of moth. Stumped? That might be because butterflies ...

The Smith's blue butterfly may be tiny, but it's endangered in a big way. It spends its whole life within a few hundred yards of two native plants, seacliff buckwheat and coast buckwheat — and is ...

After Hurricane Andrew ripped through South Florida in 1992, the already-scarce Miami blue butterfly almost went extinct: No one recorded a single sighting for years. Finally, in 1999, a cheer went up ...

There isn’t a big difference between a butterfly and a moth, but we all know which one ... middle part of the body of an insect) has thin blue lines. The Habrosyne has a pattern like a Native ...

This category encompasses over 180,000 species. The butterfly and moth have their behavioral and physical differences. That includes butterflies being active during the day while moths are nocturnal.