Painted ladies are the ultramarathoners of the butterfly world—even more so than monarchs. Scientists have long known about ...

The butterflies’ resilience shows that some species are capable of adapting to dramatic changes in climate, food availability and urban development.

St. Luke’s hosted two events honoring donors and recipients while highlighting the importance of organ donation on ...

Half a century since the first Graff Butterfly fluttered into our collective consciousness, the new spring collection has ...

The migratory monarch butterfly has a lifespan of two to six weeks, though the butterflies born at the end of the summer live eight to nine months in order to make the journey south and spend the ...

Almost 50 years ago, computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter predicted that a butterfly would spread its wings in the quantum world. Under the right conditions, tiny electrons in a quantum system ...

Karah Son and Eric Taylor in "Madama Butterfly" at Pittsburgh Opera. This is WESA Arts, a weekly newsletter by Bill O'Driscoll providing in-depth reporting about the Pittsburgh area art scene.

The proposed listing from wildlife officials “would generally prohibit anyone from killing or transporting the butterfly.” Around the same time last year, Miller called that proposal in an off ...

Gayle Anderson reports the Butterfly Pavilion takes flight at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) for the spring and summer months. Visitors can walk among hundreds of ...

But if you really want to go the extra mile and get her a gift, I’m not going to stop you. In fact, I’d like to help. From flowers to gardening bags to gorgeous jammies, here are 11 ideas that ...

Well, the basic idea is that the butterfly presents like a single organism that does a job. The job is to feed on plants. As adults, they pollinate certain plants, they may have an interaction ...

WASHINGTON D.C. — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reopening the public comment period for a proposed rule to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the Endangered Species ...