About 70 per cent of the species on Earth are insects. They are fundamental components of most ecosystems: they comprise half ...

Large butterfly-like insects known as Kalligrammatid lacewings, which fluttered through Eurasian fern- and cycad-filled woodland during the Mesozoic Era, have been extinct for more than 120 million ...

Scientists in Alaska recently discovered a potentially new insect species—the Tanana Arctic, or Oeneis tanana, a copper-colored critter that may be the state’s only endemic butterfly. According to ...

Spring is a popular season for butterflies, with many arriving as early as March. Learn all about which butterflies you might ...

The monarch butterfly fluttered a step closer to extinction Thursday, as scientists put the iconic orange-and-black insect on the endangered list because of its fast dwindling numbers. The native ...

Early spring sightings show colourful insect is a resident species for first time in decades, says conservation charity ...

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The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University has over 3 million specimens in its entomology collection, but one butterfly stands out from the rest. The butterfly is literally one in a million ...

Gardenscape is back in Saskatoon this weekend, and people were lining up outside of the butterfly exhibit, where they could walk through a room with hundreds of the spring insect.

Some animals are so unusual that they barely look real, and transparent creatures are among the strangest of them all. These ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Insects are some of the hardest working, most intriguing creatures on the planet. These smallest of animals are essential to a healthy environment, and to our very existence. Many ...

A monarch butterfly with a critical wing injury was given a second chance to fly after New York rescuers performed an intricate transplant procedure. The vulnerable insect was brought to Sweetbriar ...