Jorge Rickards: Imagine, imagine the lightness of a butterfly. And there are so many of them here that they actually bend the trees. And they like the firs because they have so many little leaves ...

There are so many of them that the tree branches sag. "Imagine the lightness of a butterfly. And there are so many of them here that they actually bend the trees," Rickards said. The monarchs are ...

A painted lady butterfly rests on a milk thistle in Kenya. It's one of the ways that painted lady butterflies have adapted to climate change, an issue that became a major focus of his photographs ...

But with habitat loss, a warming climate and chemical use in agriculture, butterfly numbers across the country are declining. From 2000 to 2020, butterfly abundance fell by 22 percent across about ...

In some cases, they mimic the shape and the color of a particular flower, to the point that you can only distinguish between the butterfly and the flower when it takes off in the air. If there is ...

A new butterfly species, Satyrium curiosolus, was discovered in a recent study at Blakiston Fan in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. It has unique evolutionary history, having likely remained ...