This piece originally appeared on the Conversation. Who doesn’t love butterflies? While most people won’t think twice about destroying a wasp nest on the side of the house, spraying a swarm of ants in ...

Changing and falling leaves are a sure sign of fall, and so are milkweed seed pods starting to dry out in preparation of being harvested. Milkweed is the only host plant of monarch butterflies, ...

We want to hear about what you collect and why. Email Cindy Hval at dchval@juno.com or call Voices editor Kimberly Lusk at (509) 459-5457. When Doug Beernink was 5 years old, his sister enlisted his ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Who doesn’t love butterflies? While most people won’t think twice about destroying a wasp nest on the side of the house, spraying a swarm of ants in the driveway, or zapping pesky ...

NAIROBI—Looking for a good home: 4.2 million butterflies. Steve Collins started collecting butterflies at age 5 on his family’s coffee farm on the flanks of Mount Elgon. He’s 74 now, and racing ...

Monarch butterflies, those iconic spring-and-fall migrators we all learned about in elementary school but rarely see these days, are in more trouble than usual this year. But in the next two months, ...

From his home in Harrisville, all the way to Asia, Europe and beyond, George Andrushko collected butterflies for nearly half a century. “My sweetheart loved butterflies and he loved collecting them,” ...

The decline of butterfly collecting as a hobby is making conservation research more difficult for entomologists, according to an analysis of 1.4 million specimens held in US museum collections dating ...

An ambitious young man who hopes to write a comprehensive book on butterflies and moths of New England now has about 150 of his collection of 5,000 on exhibit at the Berkshire Museum for the month of ...