The members of the Lepidoptera family are plentiful in North America, with more than 700 species of butterflies and 12,000 species of moths. All of them are on the hunt for nectar and a leafy ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its ...

Linda Auld is widely known as the "NOLA Bug Lady," as she has raised 147 species of butterflies and moths — photographing ... she has conducted surveys for the North American Butterfly Association.

Butterflies are distinguished from moths in being active during the day, having clubbed antennae and lacking a frenulum. Of the 700 species of butterflies that occur in North America, 74 occur in the ...

No challenge is too much for these butterflies and moths. Beating the competition is everything ... with up to six successive generations spending their lives flying north. The painted lady recently ...

Computer models developed by the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory predict that hotter, drier conditions in North America will limit the growth of a fungus that normally curbs the ...