Every winter, a marvelous spectacle occurs as hundreds of thousands of butterflies travel south across Taiwan in one of the ...

An August day in Mississippi can melt a burly, macho athlete and wilt even the most indefatigable steel magnolia, but the oppressive heat and sultry days of this last month of summer do not seem to ...

A butterfly, which depends on oak trees for its survival, has been recorded in South Lanarkshire for the first time since 1845. The purple Hairstreak, a small butterfly with tell-tale purple colouring ...

I remember the day quite well. I went to my Rotary Club meeting and returned to my office in the garden. I casually glanced into the garden as I entered the building. I noticed a sizable group of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ecologists in West Sussex recently recorded a jaw-dropping 283 purple emperor butterflies in a single day at the Knepp Castle ...

South Carolina is home to some 165 species of butterflies, including the Red-spotted Purple (Limenitis arthemis astyanax) — arguably among the most beautiful of them all. It’s a medium-sized butterfly ...

Keep your eyes out for this metallic beauty. WITH A TINY wingspan of around 20mm and a flying period of just two weeks a year, it’s not the easiest of tasks to track down the incredibly elusive purple ...