Zipkin noted that the insects "need a very specific kind of temperature and precipitation conditions to develop from an egg all the way into a butterfly, and if those change during certain times ...

It is the biggest festival of the year in China, signalling the start of spring, and this is the year of the wood snake. According to Chinese astrology, the characteristics of the snake ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A butterfly sits on a leaf at Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific Grove, Calif., on Nov. 10, 2021. (AP Photo ...