The karner blue butterfly is a federally endangered butterfly ... Honorable mention: Cecropia moth and its caterpillar Cecropia moth caterpillars grows as long as a hot dog. The caterpillars ...

Mountaintops host some of the world's most diverse butterfly species, but climate change could transform these habitats into ...

Female Eastern swallowtails tend to have more blue on the hindwings ... Grow these butterfly host plants to attract pollinators. Eastern swallowtail caterpillars are green with large yellow ...

A Yale-led study warns that global climate change may have a devastating effect on butterflies, turning their species-rich, ...

Luke explains, 'We had blue morphos breeding in the butterfly house one year. We were very excited about all of the tiny tufted caterpillars that appeared, but sadly we only ended up with one very ...

The causes involve more than just habitat loss, but there are steps you can take to help save these delicate creatures ...

A recent study combining data from more than 76,000 surveys from 35 monitoring programs across the country found butterfly populations declined 55% between 2000 and 2020. Work to preserve the pine ...

She collects them as caterpillars from public property scheduled ... Campbell, a study co-author who has been monitoring the Karner blue butterfly in Albany, said in an interview last week ...

The Smith's blue butterfly may be tiny, but it's endangered in a big way. It spends its whole life within a few hundred yards of two native plants, seacliff buckwheat and coast buckwheat — and is ...

After Hurricane Andrew ripped through South Florida in 1992, the already-scarce Miami blue butterfly almost went extinct: No one recorded a single sighting for years. Finally, in 1999, a cheer went up ...