Its flashy red or orange wings make the Florida leafwing butterfly easy to spot in flight, but it gets its name from the tricks of camouflage that allow the brown or gray underside of its wings — ...

Among the kaleidoscope of species in steepest decline in the United States are the Florida white butterfly found in the Everglades and Keys, the Hermes copper butterfly native to Southern California ...

Despite the name, the common buckeye is anything but ordinary. The eyespots make this brown butterfly a real attention-getter ...

Over the past 20 years the U.S. butterfly population has declined 22%, a dramatic loss that has scientists concerned.