This butterfly is the same species, white-letter hairstreak, as the one spotted in Scotland. But the little beauty is shown here in Dorset, UK. Ian Kirk/Wikimedia Commons In 1884, a white-letter ...

The Mount Charleston blue butterfly is still incredibly rare, but researchers are seeing more of them in more places than they have in decades. Close to 200 of the endangered insects were spotted over ...

NORWICH — A rare and elusive butterfly has been discovered for the first time in Vermont, flying this spring at one of the state’s protected natural areas. Bog elfin, patterned in brown and rust and ...

December 1965, that’s when a catchy tune debuted. Bob Lind’s “Elusive Butterfly” used a butterfly as a metaphor for love. Some of you survivors of these modern times might remember Lind’s line, “I ...

After 21 years of going into tangled black spruce bogs in search of the bog elfin, finding it was confirmation of what Bryan Pfeiffer believed to be true: the tenacity of a tiny drab brown butterfly ...

An Iowa State University researcher is the first person to capture the mating habits of a particular butterfly both on video and in photos. Kim Moss, an ISU professor of art and visual culture, was ...

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YOU may have the eyes of a hawk if you can spot the elusive butterfly in this peaceful garden scene. Hidden amongst the bushes, trees and little pond is a tiny butterfly, but the challenge is made ...

The exhibition on show in ­Adelaide has about 120 of Beckett’s paintings and is a major new survey of the artist, now regarded as an important pioneer of modern Australian art in the 1920s and 30s.