What you plant — and what you avoid — in the backyard can make a difference to your local butterfly population.

This comes as the insects are rapidly declining and are under consideration for Endangered Species Act protections.

America’s butterflies are disappearing because of ... butterflies — which only live on a bomb range at Fort Bragg in North Carolina — “so it could be extinct.” Some well-known species ...

Common lawn plants like dandelions and violets that homeowners often try to eliminate are actually critical nectar sources for North American pollinators facing habitat loss.

North American butterfly species are facing severe declines, according to a new study published in Science, raising concerns ...

A team of more than 30 researchers analyzed 12.6 million butterfly sightings across 76,000 population surveys. They found ...

Because humans are fond of butterflies, it’s easy to get volunteers to participate in surveys to count them. The annual North American Butterfly Association Fourth of July Count is an example ...

"How do we get all of the data together in a way that makes sense given that, say, the North American Butterfly Association has a completely different survey method than the Illinois Butterfly ...

Many butterflies, bees and moths are fluttering into oblivion. A new report co-authored by a Canadian researcher warns that more than one-fifth of pollinator species it studied in North America are at ...

“It kills me,” said Glassberg, who founded the North American Butterfly Association. But the butterfly counts his organization runs, he added, are important for building the next generation of ...