What Does a Hackberry Emperor Look Like? What type of butterfly is this? asks reader Andrea Rickard of Helena, Ohio. Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman say, “This is a good view of the intricate pattern on ...

One bird spectacle readily observable in Allegheny County right now comes in the form of 100 purple martins swirling above ...

Researchers believe this may be an isolated population from an ancestor species that went extinct everywhere else.

Two Illinois natives helped preserve an old general store in Hackberry, Arizona. We spent a rainy day there — and tried not to wake the mayor as he slept on a the couch.

Many in eastern Kansas are experiencing the annual explosion of hackberry butterflies, which typically perch with their wings folded together. Here they're sunning themselves by opening their wings.

Several butterflies, such as eastern tiger swallowtail, acadian hairstreak, mourning cloak, red-spotted purple, viceroy, and eastern comma, rear their larvae on willow leaves. Numerous species of ...

Swarms of blue tiger butterflies enchanted Bengaluru this week, with residents sharing videos of the colorful migration on social media.  ...

Hackberry is a lumber species that does not stand on its own too often. Rather, it has been used as a substitute for red oak, ash or elm. Indeed, hackberry has strong grain and porous structure ...

The eastern monarch butterfly population has nearly doubled in 2025 after last year's conservation efforts, according to Texas Commissioner Sid Miller and the Texas Department of Agriculture ...

The number of monarch butterflies that spent the winter in Mexico doubled this year, giving hope for a species that has faced decline in recent decades. And while conservationists welcome that ...

The population of monarch butterflies hibernating in Mexico has nearly doubled compared to last winter.

It's almost spring! And March 12 is National Plant a Flower Day, the perfect day to bask in the sunlight and plant flowers that will help pollinators like the endangered eastern monarch butterfly.