This piece originally appeared on the Conversation. Who doesn’t love butterflies? While most people won’t think twice about destroying a wasp nest on the side of the house, spraying a swarm of ants in ...

Changing and falling leaves are a sure sign of fall, and so are milkweed seed pods starting to dry out in preparation of being harvested. Milkweed is the only host plant of monarch butterflies, ...

We want to hear about what you collect and why. Email Cindy Hval at [email protected] or call Voices editor Kimberly Lusk at (509) 459-5457. When Doug Beernink was 5 years old, his sister enlisted his ...

NAIROBI—Looking for a good home: 4.2 million butterflies. Steve Collins started collecting butterflies at age 5 on his family’s coffee farm on the flanks of Mount Elgon. He’s 74 now, and racing ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Who doesn’t love butterflies? While most people won’t think twice about destroying a wasp nest on the side of the house, spraying a swarm of ants in the driveway, or zapping pesky ...

Monarch butterflies, those iconic spring-and-fall migrators we all learned about in elementary school but rarely see these days, are in more trouble than usual this year. But in the next two months, ...

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From his home in Harrisville, all the way to Asia, Europe and beyond, George Andrushko collected butterflies for nearly half a century. “My sweetheart loved butterflies and he loved collecting them,” ...

An international team discovered new types of butterflies that lay hidden in plain sight at the Natural History Museum.

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Fifty-six years ago today, Lolita was first published in the USA ...

Hopefully, it’s a problem that butterfly researchers won’t have to face for too much longer. A new museum research project, known as AMISTAD, is combining ancient DNA, modern computing technology and ...