Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atala butterflies – scientific name, Eumaeus atala – were once considered extinct in Florida. The colorful insects can be seen ...

A butterfly is a flying insect known for its brightly colored wings and distinctive flight patterns. Belonging to the order Lepidoptera, butterflies are characterized by their slender bodies, large ...

When you think of mice, you might picture them nibbling on pieces of cheese — not chowing down on monarch butterflies. But that’s exactly what’s happening in the Pismo State Beach Monarch Butterfly ...

Monarch butterflies possess a potent chemical armor. As caterpillars, they eat plants filled with toxic cardenolides that build up in their bodies and make them unpalatable to most—but not ...

Watching butterflies eat as they flit from flower to flower in your garden is relaxing and fun. If you’re lucky enough to be able to get close, you can study them as they dip their proboscis into each ...

The University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee campus offers the perfect habitat for professors and students. It turns out a rare tropical butterfly, whose survival as a species depends on a plant ...

At the largest winter monarch aggregation in central Mexico, scientists have observed that rodents attack monarchs that fall to the ground. Biologists have now discovered that the western harvest ...