University of Delaware undergraduate student looks at how mosquito control methods seriously threaten caterpillars www.udel.edu/udaily/2025/...

A former PhD student at the University of York has used records from a century-and-a-half of museum collections and citizen science projects to show long-term patterns in the species richness of tropical butterflies. www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

A project to protect and restore ancient Caledonian forests in the Scottish Highlands is significantly boosting moth biodiversity, a new study led by a University of Stirling PhD student has found. www.stir.ac.uk/news/2025/oc...

New azure butterfly species named in tribute to slain Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

While the prevailing wisdom is that butterfly populations are in steep decline worldwide, a century and a half of observations in Indonesia found -- short term trends notwithstanding -- no overall declines in butterfly species richness on Sulawesi royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A previously-unknown butterfly species collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Amazon — and overlooked in museum drawers for more than 150 years — has been designated as a new species named in honor of Harvard biologist and Wallace aficionado, Andrew Berry. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

For butterflies, bold and bright wings once meant survival, helping them attract mates and hide from prey. But a new research project suggests that as humans replace rich tropical forests with monochrome, the colour of other creatures is leaching away. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

One of the new (to me!) butterfly species I was able to observe on my recent Arizona trip, this one from Cave Creek Canyon. Ares Metalmark, Apodemia ares,

Scientists to attempt to rear British Swallowtails from eggs frozen in nitrogen. If successful, method could be used to support long-term conservation of species vulnerable to extinction www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How rare butterflies show impacts of climate change on South Florida www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...

Bees, bumblebees, butterflies and other pollinators need far more space for recovery than currently stipulated in EU directives, reports a research team from Wageningen University & Research and published this week in Science www.naturetoday.com/intl/en/natu...

In the vast heather fields around the Cairngorms' Abernethy Forest, Scotch Argus are flitting and tussling, velvety brown with an orange band www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Newly described hairstreak species, Francis’ Gorgeous Sapphire Blue, faces conservation risks in Angola news.mongabay.com/2025/09/disc...

New Study: Cold Winters Stop Species from Moving Northward Due to Climate Change www.idw-online.de/-DRTzAA

Red-banded Hairstreak is Vermont's 120th confirmed butterfly species for the state's lep fauna val.vtecostudies.org/newsfeed/new...

Extreme summer weather could further endanger monarch butterflies, an at-risk species in Canada, researchers fear ca.news.yahoo.com/extreme-summ...

Following the Coronis Fritillary's journey from shrub steppe to alpine meadow in the Yakima area www.yakimaherald.com/explore_yaki... via @Yakima_Herald

Inside a plan to bring back California’s Xerces Blue www.kqed.org/news/1205298...

Planting buffer zones around crops to keep pesticides from drifting into the surrounding landscape doesn't work, new research has found. Scientists from ARS and Cornell found no decrease in pesticides all the way across buffer zones more than 100 feet wide entomologytoday.org/2025/08/19/s...

Mount Rainier butterfly researchers track climate change. What have they found? chronline.com/stories/moun...

Climate-fuelled El Niño events are devastating butterflies, beetles and other tropical insects theconversation.com/climate-fuel...

What a Massive Butterfly Count Reveals nautil.us/what-a-massi...

A rather steamy trip to the National Arboretum yesterday yielded this red-banded hairstreak “tail/rubbing” to distract predators with this “false head” complete w faux antennae

Experts stunned after record-breaking surge in rare butterfly sightings: 'None of us want summer 2025 to ever end' <https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/purple-emperor-butterfly-population-uk/>

Santa Barbara Museum’s New Curator Wants Your Help Finding Insects  www.independent.com/2025/07/21/m...

Terrific time with good friends conducting last weekend's summer butterfly count in Green Ridge State Forest, Maryland leplog.wordpress.com/2025/07/18/g...

Only just got around to reading this provocative essay in RSB's The Biologist on rogue taxonomists and the havoc they can wreak in conservation work thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-fe...

Simple genetic tweaks and changes in the visual system can reshape butterfly perception and sexual selectionp, unraveling how beauty — and the preferences that define it — can influence the course of evolution biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/butterf...

In the high elevations of the Colombian Andes, scientists on a research expedition discovered “an unusually blue-coloured and undeniably striking species” flying low, just above some bamboo thickets. Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Why Has This Moth Turned Into a (Sometimes) Destructive Forest Pest? Likely a climate issue, but questions remain entomologytoday.org/2025/07/08/n... via @EntsocAmerica

Dover Twist had not been recorded in England since 1952 until .... www.birdguides.com/news/extinct... News from BirdGuides 07/07/2025

Dozens of Delaware Skippers (an S3 Vulnerable species in the State) today at MD’s Eastern Neck NWR

A new report, co-authored by Washington State University conservation biologist Cheryl Schultz, provides a roadmap for recovering butterfly populations across the U.S. xerces.org/publications...

Chasing the ever decreasing numbers of butterflies in New Zealand newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/14/c...

CONSERVATION EFFORTS FOR THE WEST VIRGINIA WHITE AND APPALACHIAN GRIZZLED SKIPPER wvdnr.gov/protecting-w...

U of Florida's Akito Kawahara Shares 6 Surprising Ways Butterflies and Moths Benefit the Ecosystem (soil enrichment? who knew??) www.americadailypost.com/akito-kawaha...

Tales from the dunes: Crystal Skippers evoke science, sentiment coastalreview.org/2025/06/tale...

Popular Sussex wildlife festival returns and focuses on increasing populations of South Downs butterflies www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/people/...

Mountain Migrants: How Army Cutworm Moths Bounce Between Midwest Heat and Alpine Cool entomologytoday.org/2025/06/09/m... via @EntsocAmerica

A good initiative even if their target Monarchs aren't especially threatened--- Missouri is building a 300-mile butterfly trail www.kcur.org/arts-life/20...

Packing for a trip is always hard. Carryon or checked bags? It’s even harder when packing for butterflies theconversation.com/live-cargo-h...

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Ancient poop yields world’s oldest butterfly fossils | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Eurasian Comma watching the tourists wander past obliviously at the Kew Waterlily House

David E. Dix: Kent State scientist details butterfly research, why it matters www.record-courier.com/story/opinio...

Variegation is all the rage in the Cruickshank Botanic Garden at the University of Aberdeen, where a Green-veined White (Pieris napi) rests on a variegated hosta

Green-veined white was flying in numbers today over the heath at Well of the Lecht in Cairngorms NP. As soon as a cloud obscured the sun, even briefly, the whites would drop like stones into the vegetation. This one is nectaring at the larval host plant, cuckoo flower, Cardamine pratensis.

The frosted elfin butterfly returns home to North Florida. www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/the-...

Brown Argus on the chalk grassland in South Downs NP (UK) are similarly coloured to female Common Blues but *much* harder to spot