Hidden away in an area of Waterton Lakes National Park, little greyish brown butterflies are now being recognized as a new ...

A new butterfly species, Satyrium curiosolus, has been discovered in Alberta. Isolated for millennia, it shows unique traits ...

It’s literally because they were curious about how it survived in isolation.) They announced the discovery in an April 2025 study published in ZooKeys. The curiously isolated hairstreak butterfly has ...

The Chalkhill Blue male is easy to identify with its silvery-blue upper wings but the female is very similar to the Adonis ...

This former librarian is a self-described pollinator advocate who developed a deep love for nature and respect for wildlife ...

"At the moment, we rely on daytime surveys for these rare and endangered species and that often means trying to spot a dark ...

While Dr Brown enjoyed a successful career in orthodontics, his passion for butterflies started as an eight-year-old finding butterflies around the creeks of Wollongong on the NSW South Coast.

Even our commonest brown butterflies plummeted, with the charming and well recognised ringlet declining by 70% and the near ubiquitous and unfussy meadow brown having fallen by 69%. What is ...

The temperature is still in flux, and this will likely remain true as we continue to march forward through spring. However, ...

Tucked away in Waterton Lakes National Park, little greyish brown butterflies — long thought to be just another population of the half-moon hairstreak butterflies — are now being recognized as ...

The charming, and not rare, frosted elfin butterfly, which prefers sandhill environments, is being considered for the ...