A Bridgeton butterfly garden produced only the third documented white monarch in Missouri since 1908 — and the woman who ...

I saw my first black swallowtail butterfly the other day, and it immediately sent me running to my parsley bed to see if the butterfly had laid any eggs. You see, most people grow herbs for cooking, ...

Butterflies and moths aren’t as easy to tell apart as you might think. We asked an expert entomologist to tell us what they ...

Think of a monarch butterfly, and a distinctive image pops up: black-and-orange wings, with a sprinkling of white spots around the black edges. Those white spots may actually help monarchs complete ...

Cabbage white butterflies—Pieris rapae—are one of the most common garden visitors across southern and eastern Australia. The butterfly looks elegant in white with black dots on its wings: females have ...

From monarchs and swallowtails to red admirals, here are the butterflies you are most likely to see in late summer and early fall in Iowa.

The insect world is full of weird and wonderful evolutionary designs, and these remarkable species prove that butterflies are ...