The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its second-lowest mark in ...

These caterpillars carry a toxic chemical cocktail and Inquisition-like delivery implements—and their geographic range is ...

Autumn and winter are not often lauded as the prime time for recording Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). This can lead to a recording bias whereby the ecology of winter-active insects is ...

A recent study published in the open-access journal African Invertebrates provides insights into the life history and ...

Back in 2016, one of us (Silviu Petrovan) was asked to identify a live frog found in a shipment of roses in Sheffield, ...

In some cases data named a contaminant only as “Coleoptera”, the scientific name for beetles and the largest insect group comprising over 300,000 species, or as “Lepidoptera” (butterflies ...

Fewer-than-usual monarch butterflies migrated through San Luis Obispo County this winter, according to data from the conservation-focused nonprofit the Xerces Society. “It feels like a punch to ...

PISMO BEACH, Calif. – On Thursday, invertebrate conservation group the Xerxes Society released the results of their 28th annual Western Monarch Butterfly Count and recorded the second lowest ...

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The annual Western Monarch Count observed a peak population of 9,119 Monarch butterflies in California this winter, marking a sharp decline in the last few years. The count, administered by the ...

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At a site in New Mexico, a new discovery rewrites the human history of the continent Akito Kawahara has spent his life devoted to lepidoptera. Now he’s correcting the record on where they first ...