Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "There's more to it than just counting overwintering butterflies," said David James, an associate professor in Washington State ...

SELMA – The day was made to order for Mallieve Breeding, almost like a sign from above. As relatives and friends arrived for her memorial service Wednesday afternoon, some looked upward to savor puffy ...

Kiki Sylvain has spent the last 10 years of her career breeding butterflies at her company SK Butterflies. Many different signs inspired Sylvain to start the business including the day she found a ...

A count of the Western Monarch butterfly population last winter saw a staggering drop in numbers, but there are hopeful signs the beautiful pollinators are adapting to a changing climate and ecology.

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Monarch butterflies are famed for their spectacular long-distance migration, an aerial dance across wild landscapes that’s part marathon, part relay race. But there’s surprising new evidence that — ...

A breeding effort aimed at increasing the population of the Baltimore checkerspot butterfly – the official state insect – has suffered a setback, in part because of some unruly Montgomery County geese ...

PULLMAN, Wash. -- A count of the Western Monarch butterfly population last winter saw a staggering drop in numbers, but there are hopeful signs the beautiful pollinators are adapting to a changing ...

A rare migrant butterfly from Europe - which is heading north as the climate changes - appears to be trying to establish a breeding colony on England's south coast, conservationists said today. The ...

Monarch butterflies are famed for their spectacular long-distance migration, an aerial dance across wild landscapes that’s part marathon, part relay race. But there’s surprising new evidence that — ...