A new study compiling butterfly surveys across the country found a 22% overall decline, while seven species found in Maine ...

Photographer and National Geographic Explorer Rena Effendi learned that a little-known species was named after her late ...

Among the plethora of butterfly species adorning our planet, some stand out for their exceptional beauty. Here, we delve into ...

“The tree of life is being denuded at unprecedented rates.” The United States has 650 butterfly species, but 96 species were so sparse they didn’t show up in the data and another 212 species ...

Two-thirds of studied species declined by more than 10%, the study said. Butterfly populations have dropped by 22% across 554 recorded species in the United States, according to a new study in the ...

Still, researchers didn’t have enough data to include some of the most imperiled butterfly species, which probably experienced some of the steepest declines. And the data was quite likely biased ...

How ironic that the butterfly's numbers were at record-low levels by the 1980s — and it's been in long-term decline ever since. Luckily for the Bay checkerspot, its population plunge was observed ...

Of the 554 butterfly species recorded, there were 13 times as many species in decline as increasing. Two-thirds of the studied species have declined by more than 10%. One of the authors of the ...

The study also highlights concerning trends among rare butterfly species that were not included in the analysis due to insufficient data. For example, Haddad mentions he has only seen two ...