A butterfly once extinct in the UK has been reintroduced to another part of the Gloucestershire countryside. Some 1,100 larvae of the large blue butterfly were taken from other West Country ...

An endangered butterfly that was once extinct in the UK has had its best summer in 150 years. The large blue butterfly is one of Europe's most endangered insects but thousands have been recorded ...

The owl butterfly may be beautiful, but looks can be deceptive: in reality the species is something of a hooligan. The juice guzzler loves nothing more than a day feeding on fermented fruit and ...

Swallowtails are large butterflies, so naturally their caterpillars, or larvae, grow to be pretty good-sized. Many have beautiful or strange color patterns. The giant swallowtail caterpillar has a ...

Some collectors shot large butterflies out of the sky with shotguns filled with mustard seed. The unusual ammunition was used to limit the damage caused to the specimens. The Natural History ...

Researchers from the University of Oviedo said the southern giant hornet is an “aggressive predator” that preys on ...

The large butterfly, a member of the swallowtail family, has a wingspan of about 12 centimeters, and the male has black wings. It mainly inhabits southern Japan, including Okinawa Prefecture and ...

DESCRIPTION: The monarch is a large orange butterfly that flies with its wings held in a “v” shape. The wings have prominent dark veins and two rows of white spots at the edges, and the body is dark.