You've probably seen monarch butterflies, and maybe monarch caterpillars, but there's a lot to learn about the monarch life ...

Q: Parsley caterpillars have just about eaten all my parsley. This is a good thing. I have four plants and 30 worms of different sizes/stages. My problem is the parsley is almost gone and I am not ...

Find out what an eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly and caterpillar looks like and the best host plants to attract them. The ...

This is an action shot of what used to be coyly described as “the birds and the bees”. These are mating white-tailed ...

Until recently, the southern small white - which is mainly native to Mediterranean areas - had small, isolated populations in ...

Until a few years ago, the butterfly known as the southern small white could barely be found north of the Alps. That was ...

A low number of butterflies in 2024 makes it likely that fewer eggs will have been laid. As a result, we can expect fewer ...

Butterflies are a key indicator species; when they are in trouble we know that the wider environment is in trouble too ...

The regal fritillary butterfly's population is declining, due in part to prairie habitat loss in Kansas and elsewhere.

Only two of the past 32 years of summer butterfly counts have tallied fewer individuals, and three years' counts detected ...

Butterfly Conservation slams "obsession with tidiness" in British gardens and green spaces that is "just really bad for ...

The Big Butterfly Count returned this summer and unfortunately it has recorded the lowest number of butterflies in its ...