Butterfly monitoring schemes are at the heart of citizen science, with the general public and researchers collaborating to discover how butterfly populations change over time. To develop the concept ...

The population of butterflies in the U.S. has declined significantly over the past two decades. Through its monitoring program, Colorado’s Butterfly Pavilion is looking for volunteers to help ...

Utility corridors or right of ways (ROWs) provide elaborate and often interconnected green corridors considered by many to be valuable ecosystem-worthy green spaces. When managed properly, these areas ...

Climate change is an important contributor to insect declines around the world, according to a new study published in the scientific journal PNAS that examined continuous long-term monitoring of ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature placed the monarch butterfly on its Red List of Threatened Species as endangered in July, but despite decades of declining numbers, the delicate ...

Last fall, The New York Times' article “The Insect Apocalypse is Here” caused quite a stir. It detailed research demonstrating a precipitous drop in insect populations in places as far apart as ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — In the last 20 years, ...

A major new EU Pilot Project will monitor population trends of butterflies to assess the health of the environment and to inform EU biodiversity and agricultural policies. Butterfly populations are ...

Extreme weather could threaten the existence of Britain’s butterflies, according to a new study. Heat waves, cold snaps and heavy rain have probably already contributed to crashing populations of ...