Early spring sightings show colourful insect is a resident species for first time in decades, says conservation charity ...

Large butterfly-like insects known as Kalligrammatid lacewings, which fluttered through Eurasian fern- and cycad-filled woodland during the Mesozoic Era, have been extinct for more than 120 million ...

Scientists in Alaska recently discovered a potentially new insect species—the Tanana Arctic, or Oeneis tanana, a copper-colored critter that may be the state’s only endemic butterfly. According to ...

The great Mormon butterfly is one in every 10,000 butterflies who is half male and half female. Scientists explained this ...

See the amazing moment when a monarch butterfly received a wing transplant and learn more about these butterflies.

Wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation say that if sightings continue at this rate, they will officially remove the large tortoiseshell from their list of extinct British butterflies. Find out more ...

Out of the 136 species of butterflies’ populations studied, not a single one increased over the past 3 decades.

Unlike the small tortoiseshell butterfly, the large tortoiseshell butterfly hasn't been a resident of the UK since the 1960s.

CHESTERFIELD, Mo. — A lowly hissing cockroach at the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House in Chesterfield is causing a stir in the global scientific community. Invertebrate Keeper Nicole Pruess found one ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Insects are some of the hardest working, most intriguing creatures on the planet. These smallest of animals are essential to a healthy environment, and to our very existence. Many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the lab at this urban bug oasis, exotic cockroaches hiss and tarantulas feed. Out back in the fly house, butterflies soar.