The flashes of orange, white and black looked a bit like leaves scattering in the wind. Then Kent Yamaguchi took a closer look. “It was just an inordinate amount of painted lady butterflies,” said ...

Kelly Eden, a model and artist, started raising monarch butterflies last year. This summer, she released 10 healthy monarchs from her Los Angeles garden. But last month, two butterflies emerged from ...

Sometimes, it pays to stop and smell the flowers. A photographer has captured remarkable photos of endangered butterflies flying off flowers at a nature preserve in the U.K., British news agency SWNS ...

An injured butterfly can now fly after a wing transplant from a dead insect. The monarch butterfly was brought to Sweetbriar Nature Center in Long Island, New York, with its wing bent and torn, unable ...

Without moths, butterflies might not exist. "Most evolutionary biologists consider butterflies to be day-flying moths because the primary evolutionary ancestor was probably a moth," says Dave ...