As Sting might say, if you love something, set it free. That's a philosophy more and more wedding participants seem to believe in. Instead of tossing handfuls of rice like their parents and ...

The flashes of orange, white and black looked a bit like leaves scattering in the wind. Then Kent Yamaguchi took a closer look. “It was just an inordinate amount of painted lady butterflies,” said ...

Kelly Eden, a model and artist, started raising monarch butterflies last year. This summer, she released 10 healthy monarchs from her Los Angeles garden. But last month, two butterflies emerged from ...

Sometimes, it pays to stop and smell the flowers. A photographer has captured remarkable photos of endangered butterflies flying off flowers at a nature preserve in the U.K., British news agency SWNS ...

COTO DE CAZA – As butterflies spread their wings across the nation, the North American Butterfly Association holds counts for its yearly census. Armed with binoculars, cameras and guidebooks, the ...

Without moths, butterflies might not exist. "Most evolutionary biologists consider butterflies to be day-flying moths because the primary evolutionary ancestor was probably a moth," says Dave ...

If any time marks the beginning of the monarch butterflies’ travels across North America, it's the early days of spring. During the coming weeks, the two monarch populations will migrate as far as ...

Scientists have long wondered how butterflies fly – compared with other flying animals, the creatures have unusually short, broad and large wings relative to their body size. Now, experts have found ...