"Even though moths and butterflies are a well-studied group, we're just now beginning to understand some of the most basic ...

One of the rarest butterflies in the country, the Schaus’ Swallowtail Butterfly, is benefitting from an event many people dread. A new study from the Florida Museum of Natural History shows hurricanes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A very rare and endangered type of butterfly called Schaus’ swallowtail lives only in far South Florida, where its survival is ...

Each winter, Floridians are lucky enough to step into their gardens and witness the majesty of monarch butterfly migrations. The colorful black and orange wings dazzle kids and parents alike, as do ...

Sometimes, nature’s surprises come with wings. In a new study, scientists pulled from a 35-year dataset to examine long-term population trends of the federally endangered Schaus’ swallowtail butterfly ...

From the Miami blue to the Schaus’ swallowtail, South Florida is home to many endangered and declining pollinator species that only exist here. The Miami blue butterfly alone has dropped by a minimum ...

Biologists deposited caterpillars of the rare frosted elfin butterfly on its host plant, the sundial lupine, in north Florida. Photo from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ...

Butterflies are some of the most beautiful insects. There are also many beautiful moths. They have three main body regions ...

The Florida Museum of Natural History recently published “The Butterflies of California.” The book was co-written by the late Thomas Emmel (1941-2018), a founder and curator of the museum’s McGuire ...