Julia Alvarez brought the story of the assassination of the Mirabel sisters to life in her novel. Writing "In the Time of the Butterflies," Julia Alvarez felt a responsibility to bring the story of ...

The shift from warm summer to cool fall conditions can be stressful for many animals. Surviving each season requires a ...

Immersing yourself in the Butterflies Alive! exhibit at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History has become one of summer’s most joyful and colorful celebrations, made all the more special because ...

An Arkansas study into Buckeye butterflies found that they aren’t just changing colors with the seasons, but changing the way ...

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 countrywide ...

During the past four decades, scientists have documented a 1.6 percent decline per year in the number of butterflies in the southwestern United States. Doesn’t sound like much? Consider how that ...

An international collaboration to track individual monarchs kicked off this fall, including James Madison University.

Van der Heide got her start at Cal Poly, tagging monarchs by numbering their wings in Sharpie and trying to find them later ...

Washington — 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 ...

For the first time in California, citizen scientists can join the effort to track monarch butterflies thanks to Blu+, a new ...

The most beautiful butterflies in the world: People have been interested in butterflies for hundreds of years because of their bright colors and complicated wing patterns. But the prettiest ...

It is not unfair to say that this hour-long film was based on various reoccurring themes running through the Dialectical Butterflies website and in the process making a complete mockery of them. It ...