When a hurricane blows through the Florida Keys, strong winds strip trees of their leaves, and storm surge floods the land with seawater. "The immediate impacts are detrimental for the butterfly ...

Just after sunset Linda Normoyle captured this “peaceful scene” of a boat and the Sanibel lighthouse. Taken with a Sony RX 10 ...

“This study is among the longest-running for a tropical butterfly, and it has been a privilege to get to work with such an amazing dataset,” said Sarah Steele Cabrera, a doctoral candidate at the ...

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its second-lowest mark in nearly three decades as pesticides, diminishing habitat and climate ...

COCONUT CREEK, FL - Coconut Creek’s Annual Butterfly Festival will take place on Saturday, Feb. 22, at Sabal Pines Park from 2-8:30 PM. The event will feature live performances, a Business Expo ...

The largest male great white shark tagged by OCEARCH scientists has surfaced again off the North Florida coast.

Contender, the largest male great white shark tagged by OCEARCH, was tagged off the Florida-Georgia line on January 17. OCEARCH, a non-profit research organization, uses satellite tags attached to ...

Butterfly World, the largest butterfly house on Earth and the first of its kind in the United States, has been in business since 1986 and is home to more than 20,000 live butterflies. The 3-acre ...

Usually, pairs of volunteers scout out the overwintering sites early in the morning while the butterflies are still in clusters – counting each butterfly individually when possible, and counting ...