Monarch Butterflies' Spectacular Migration Is at Risk – an Ambitious New Plan Aims To Help Save It

Medicine & Technology Sep 21, 2020

Human activities have an outsized impact on monarchs’ ability to migrate yearly to these specific sites. Development, agriculture and logging have reduced monarch habitat. Climate change, drought and pesticide use also reduce the number of butterflies that complete the journey.

5 Beautiful and Rare Butterflies That Might Go Extinct Soon

Aug 12, 2020

Butterflies have colorful and beautiful wings which makes them the common motif in the visual and literary arts, which signifies freedom, beuty, and spring.

Tiny Drone Now Plays the Role of a Pollinator to complete the Pollination of Flowers

Mar 24, 2017

Japanese Scientists have discovered a tiny drone that can pollinate the flowers and can be used as the successful pollinator.

Yawunik Arthropod Revealed—The Toothsome Creature that Gave Rise to Lobsters, Spiders and Butterflies

Mar 29, 2015

When you watch butterflies flutter through the sky and lobsters waddle in the sea, you may not readily believe that the two far off species have anything in common. But along with spiders, butterflies and lobsters share quite an interesting collective history-one where an ancient ancestor may have emerged from the sea. Cover the ocean, the land and the skies above the radiation of species into many forms are believed to have originated with a common ancestor as long as 508 million years ago. And in a new study published this week in the journal Paleontology researchers are finally giving a face to ancestor known as Yawunik kootenayi.

Monarch Butterflies Could Soon Be Deemed “Endangered”

Dec 31, 2014

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced earlier this week that it is considering placing the monarch butterfly under the federal protection of the Endangered Species Act. And now, for the next sixty days, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will hear comments from the public on the idea of listing the butterfly.