AS USUAL. WELL, STARTING IN MAY, NEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS NEEDS VOLUNTEERS TO HELP COLLECT DATA ON THE STATE’S BUTTERFLY POPULATION. THE BIG BUTTERFLY COUNT LASTS THROUGH SEPTEMBER. AND JOINING US ...

WITH summer truly under way in the northern hemisphere, now is a perfect time to spot butterflies and day-flying moths. If you live in the UK, you can help conservation scientists by participating in ...

As butterfly numbers decline, sightings become more important - that’s according to the charity Butterfly Conservation. Following a bad year for butterflies in 2024, Butterfly Conservation is urging ...

The annual Big Butterfly Count is back for another year, taking place from Friday 18 July to Sunday 10 August 2025. But what is it, and how can we get involved? Here’s what you need to know.

While analyzing the mountains of data harvested from three decades of butterfly counting in the Midwest, a Michigan State University Ph.D. candidate had seen enough studies to be braced for bad news.

CHICO — Chaye Vail donned a butterfly-covered bucket hat and butterfly-covered socks at the 18th annual Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve Butterfly Count. “I kind of like butterflies,” Vail, an ...

In the United States, perhaps no bug has been counted as often as the butterfly. “There’s a lot of passion for them, they’re very charismatic,” says Collin Edwards, a quantitative ecologist at the ...

It’s a big day for insects. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday that it is proposing the monarch butterfly for threatened species status under the Endangered Species Act, a big step ...