MISSOULA, Mont. — The Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium joined a network of scientists contributing to nationwide research and publication on insect numbers and climate change. The Butterfly ...

The Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs, the most of any animal, and its DNA may reveal insights into evolution and ...

LANSING, Mich. — Move over monarch butterfly; a large and fast-moving dragonfly is also vying for designation as Michigan’s official state insect. A bill introduced this week in Lansing would ...

The 93-year-old Xerces blue butterfly specimen used in the study. Photo: Field Museum Scientists say they’ve confirmed a decades-old suspicion about the loss of the Xerces blue butterfly in the U.S by ...

The effectiveness of camouflage or warning colors for insect defense depends on conditions such as light levels and how many predators are around.

With over 5 million species of insects, some species will inevitably benefit from the same changing conditions that harm ...

Climate change is an important contributor to insect declines around the world, according to a new study published in the scientific journal PNAS that examined continuous long-term monitoring of ...

WESTMINSTER —From the frenzy of bulldozers to pesticide use to bright city lights, insects across the planet are being bombarded with threats that carry the potential for extinction. In Colorado, this ...

The first insectile casualty of human activity in the United States was recorded around 80 years ago, new research has confirmed. The insect, the Xerces blue butterfly, died out in the mid-20th ...

As many as 1,200 people living around the forests of coastal Kenya and Tanzania have turned to butterfly farming to make a living. Many of them were once loggers who now defend the forest. Three ...

Chafer, beetle, lice and other insects with sprig of buckthorn by Jan van Kessel, early 1650s, photo: Ashmolean Museum / Heritage Images / Getty Images What do we think of when we hear the word insect ...