Last month, news headlines worldwide exclaimed that the monarch butterfly had been declared an endangered species by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. It was an alarming ...

BEAVER ISLAND, MI – Lauri Juday stooped down to inspect the leaves of a common milkweed plant and then shouted, “I’ve got one.” She was leading a group of student volunteers to find and collect ...

A citizen poll to identify the national butterfly concluded with three species garnering the highest number of votes. While the organisers will submit the list of the top-three to the Ministry of ...

Dehradun: Uttarakhand has become the second state after Maharashtra to get a state butterfly after the Papilio bianor (Common Peacock) was awarded the status. In a meeting, the state forest department ...

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature added the migratory monarch to its "red list" denoting it as "endangered," two steps from extinct, on Thursday, July 21. As a result, concern ...

Guwahati: Assam’s Kaziranga National Park has recorded over 446 butterfly species in an exciting discovery, securing its position as the second-highest butterfly diversity hotspot in the country after ...