A butterfly flits past the window at the Castlewood Canyon Visitor Center, where dozens of volunteers have gathered to learn ...

Insects are small but have a huge impact. Insects represent more than half of all wild species on the planet, with more than ...

The 10th annual Butterfly Festival, sponsored by the University of Tennessee Arboretum Society, is coming Sept. 6.

Nearly every state has a state insect or butterfly, with only two states not having one: Iowa and Michigan, as well as the District of Columbia. The first state to adopt a state insect was California.

Insects pollinate crops, recycle nutrients, aerate soil and provide the essential base protein in food chains. Butterfly Pavilion lepidopterist manager Shiran Herschcovich hikes along the ...

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But scientists are still learning about the insect. The butterfly used to live only on the San Francisco Peninsula. But by the early 1940s, less than a century after its formal scientific ...

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.