Browsing: Butterflies

“The flood waters are only good for scavenger species,” says Steve Hussey, searching hard for a silver lining to last week’s deluges brought by Storm Chandra.…

In the tiny seaside village of Pacific Grove, California, there’s no escaping the monarch butterfly.Here, butterfly murals abound: one splashes across the side of a hotel,…

The world is becoming less colourful. For butterflies, bold and bright wings once meant survival, helping them attract mates and hide from prey. But a new…

The butterfly was dead when the old man found it, lying in the snow 1,600 metres above sea level. It didn’t have a name then, as…

7. Speckled wood: 53,423 sightingsThe number of speckled wood butterflies, with their distinctive yellow specks, has seen a similar number of sightings compared with last year,…

Following the Perth Bears, the next franchise to join the National Rugby League competition may just be the PNG Boars. Or will it be the Hunters,…

Butterflies flit across my vision wherever I go this summer. Screams of swifts have been unusually audible in cities. Hedges are laden with blackberries. Hordes of…

A 2024 mass monarch butterfly die off in southern California was probably caused by pesticide exposure, new peer-reviewed research finds, adding difficult-to-obtain evidence to the theory…

Trista Egli was standing in a greenhouse, tearing up strips of plantain and preparing to feed them to butterfly larvae.Of the many things the team here…

A conservation project in West Sussex has had its best day on record for rare purple emperor butterfly sighting, and ecologists say they are confident the…