Despite the name, the common buckeye is anything but ordinary. The eyespots make this brown butterfly a real attention-getter ...

Photographer and National Geographic Explorer Rena Effendi learned that a little-known species was named after her late ...

Identify the silver-spotted skipper butterfly and caterpillar. Plus learn where to find this small pollinator.

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send it to ...

more poisonous butterfly species, giving them protection. The Indian leaf butterfly (Kallima paralekta) is nearly impossible to spot when it is nestled among leaves. Its upper side is steel blue with ...

This stunning orange-and-dark-brown butterfly is found only in high-elevation meadows around the ... Finally, in early 2023, the Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly won Endangered Species Act ...

The greedy zebra butterfly's protein-rich diet of pollen is fuelling its remarkably long lifespan. A taste for pollen is rare in the butterfly world - most species rely on sugar-laden nectar or fruit ...

The meadow brown butterfly’s Latin name is Maniola or ‘little spirit from hell’. It has been represented as a demon in art. The Greek word psyche means both spirit and butterfly. The Greeks ...

Its flashy red or orange wings make the Florida leafwing butterfly easy to spot in flight, but it gets its name from the tricks of camouflage that allow the brown or gray underside of its wings — ...

“The tree of life is being denuded at unprecedented rates.” The United States has 650 butterfly species, but 96 species were so sparse they didn’t show up in the data and another 212 species ...

New species of shark, sea butterfly, mud dragon, bamboo coral, water bear, octocoral, and shrimp were just some of the findings that were registered in a directory after the collaborative ...