Summer is butterfly time, as the pretty winged creatures flit through the air like flower petals whisked aloft by the breeze. Ancient Greeks derived the idea of a soul, called a psyche, based on a ...

Shervin Hess / Oregon Zoo Conservationists from the Oregon Zoo and its partners released 483 Oregon silverspot butterfly larvae in the coast range last week, marking the final group of the season in ...

While some travel far, others stay right in your backyard.

A no-mow patch helps caterpillars live long enough to turn into butterflies and moths Making the world safer for butterflies can be as easy as doing a bit of nothing. Letting some part of a yard go ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Ecologists Friday afternoon continued their re-introduction of the Variable Checkerspot butterfly to the Presidio in San Francisco, a city known for the number of butterflies ...

Summer isn't officially here, but it might as well be. Flowers are blooming, the days are warm and butterflies are effortlessly floating from flower to flower. Butterflies are likely among our most ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — In a breezy coastal meadow this week, Oregon Zoo conservationists and their partners said goodbye to 381 of the zoo’s tiniest residents. They were releasing Oregon silverspot ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. They are ravenous and ...