Caper white butterflies are fluttering through southeast Queensland, Australia, in a large-scale migration, according to Australian media reports. The Brisbane Times reported "hundreds of millions" of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kathy Reid, CC BY-SA Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) appear to be declining not just in North America but also in ...

Thousands of monarch butterflies have taken over the Australian town of Nannup, lounging on the tulips, humming around the bottlebrush-a butterfly swarm has invaded a rural Australian town, and ...

Scientists found an “iridescent,” purple-winged butterfly at an Australia park and discovered a new species, a study said and photos show. Photo from Braby (2024) As sunlight was shining on a park in ...

In just 10 weeks, a team of Canadian researchers has succeeded in "barcoding" 28,000 moth and butterfly specimens -- or about 65 percent of Australia's 10,000 known species -- held at CSIRO's ...

In the near future, butterflies in China are likely to be monitored using European monitoring methods. Ecologists from several Chinese research institutions and from Germany recently laid the ...

Thanks to the engineers at Australia’s National University (ANU), the idea of flying butterflies powering the future was brought to the fore. Based on the wings of the Blue Morpho Didius butterfly, ...

A series of heists on Australian museums 70 years ago is still causing a flutter in butterfly science today. Lepidopterist Michael Braby is sitting in his lab, peering at a photo of a butterfly ...