Later this month for Valentine’s Day, the Butterfly Pavilion invertebrate zoo is hosting its annual Romance is Wild exhibit, honoring the wild and wacky mating rituals in the tiny animal kingdom.

The female butterfly lays her eggs near wild violet plants in late summer. After about two to three weeks of incubation the eggs hatch. Instead of feeding, the tiny, ...

Two hundred and thirty-six million years ago, an ancient herbivore took a dump that would blow 21-century minds. You see, that poop contained what would become the oldest-known evidence of butterflies ...

Butterfly Symbolism. The butterfly isn't just an elegant emblem in Ree's world. In Greek mythology, psyche (which means "soul" or "butterfly") is often depicted with butterfly wings.

Washington, D.C. (7News) — Things got wild at Nova Wild on Wednesday morning. The Reston-based zoo showed off their new Butterfly Observatory called 'Wild Wings' with Brian. Betty Kruckow, the ...

A monarch butterfly lands on a common milkweed plant on June 27, 2024, in a forestry plot owned by Aurora Sustainable Lands near Seney in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.