FAIRBANKS — All the big, black and yellow striped butterflies you see fluttering about are nothing unusual. It’s just the annual outbreak of hatching Canadian tiger swallowtails. “Tiger swallowtails ...

On Wednesday, May 6 at 6:30 p.m. Friends of Sears Island will host a Zoom presentation given by Ron Butler about the butterflies of Maine and the Canadian Maritimes. This presentation will cover the ...

The monarch population has been in decline for years, and now a committee of scientists in Canada is calling the butterflies "endangered." The butterfly population has seen "declines of greater than ...

The Appalachian tiger swallowtail butterfly is a rare breed: Some 100,000 years ago, two different species mated and their hybrid offspring gave rise to the Appalachian species, researchers have found ...

Like many gardeners, I’ve planted clumps of milkweed species like swamp milkweed and butterfly weed in my garden to attract ...