Its 7-month development cycle is a biological challenge to replenishing the wild population. The butterfly is a specialist and lives in a very narrow ecological niche within Papua New Guinea’s Oro ...

The UK's largest native butterfly has not been seen in the region for more than a century.

Fort Indiantown Gap in northern Lebanon County has announced the weekends of July 1-2 and 8-9 as the 2016 dates for tours of the grasslands that support the only population of rare regal fritillary ...

These butterflies are notoriously difficult to spot because they only take flight for a short window, usually during the last ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rare butterfly, the red-spotted patch, was spotted at a Texas conservatory on November 25. (Courtesy of National Butterfly ...

May 29—The only place to find the regal fritillary butterfly in the East Coast is at Fort Indiantown Gap. It’s a rare treat to spot what the military training site compares to a monarch butterfly ...

TWIN LAKE, MI — A tiny, rare butterfly has become “the mascot” for ecological efforts in West Michigan. The silvery-winged Karner blue butterfly flitted among native spotted bee balm and butterfly ...

TWIN LAKE, MI – Several small, silvery-winged butterflies flitted among the native spotted bee balm and butterfly milkweed growing under the hot, summer sun at Muskegon State Game Area. Wildlife ...

In 1906, naturalist Albert Stewart Meek discovered a butterfly so large that it defied belief. Living high in the canopies of Papua New Guinea, the Queen Alexandra birdwing (Ornithoptera alexandrae) ...