Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Taking a walk in the Midwest today is a different experience than it was 30 years ago. That's because butterfly populations there ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — When most people think of the Pennsylvania Farm Show, they’ll think of animals like cows and horses. But some much smaller creatures are also part of the Farm Show, and they ...

'Preserving butterflies is not just about preserving beauty and color, but about the stability and health of ecosystems on which we all depend,' says ecologist Dotan Rotem The post A third of Israel’s ...

The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World By Oliver Milman, pub. W.W. Norton & Co If the downside to a world without bugs could be summed up in an image, it might be a picture ...

Researchers working with Jurassic fossils from China have discovered insects with remarkably butterfly-like features, even though the species vanished some 40 to 50 million years before the appearance ...

Spring never has been more welcome. After more than a year of isolation, spirits across the country are being reinvigorated by daffodils, birdsong and longer days. In the western United States, ...

The world has lost more than one quarter of its land-dwelling insects in the past 30 years, according to researchers whose big picture study of global bug decline paints a disturbing but more nuanced ...

Gardeners are scrambling to help the threatened monarch butterfly by planting more milkweed, the insect's host plant. Drought, loss of habitat and pesticides have decimated stands of milkweed along ...

Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working ...