As the watery light filtered down through treetops, I closed my eyes and listened. What sounded like leaves rustling in the wind was the flickering wings of thousands of monarch butterflies as they ...

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The Florida white is among the butterflies experiencing the most drastic population loss, according to a new study. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 Butterfly populations ...

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Entomologists reached their conclusions by analyzing 76,000 surveys across the Lower 48 states, which accounted for 12.6 million individual butterflies. Of the species studied, two-thirds showed ...

Any individual flower you put out it likely to get visited,” said Nick Dorian, a post-doctoral researcher at the Chicago Botanic Garden who studies butterflies. All it takes is planting a few ...

America’s butterflies are disappearing because of insecticides, climate change and habitat loss, with the number of the winged beauties down 22% since 2000, a new study finds. The first ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A new study found that butterflies are disappearing from the United States at an alarming rate, with most species showing significant population decline in recent years.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. America’s butterflies are disappearing at an alarming rate according to new study. The number of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s butterflies are disappearing because of insecticides, climate change and habitat loss, with the number of the winged beauties down 22% since 2000, a new study finds.