When a butterfly crosses your path, it’s only natural to take a pause to register such natural beauty and splendor. Like catching sight of a rainbow, seeing a butterfly feels like a special and ...

Every butterfly gardener delights when showy swallowtail butterflies make an appearance. These butterflies are some of the largest in the garden, and their colorful wings and soaring flight patterns ...

In December of 2025, a Natural History Museum discovery write-up reported that researchers finally untangled a long-running identification problem involving neotropical hairstreak butterflies. A ...

Like living fairies, butterflies flutter across flowery meadows on beautiful wings. But put aside your fairy fantasies for a moment and consider that some butterflies drink tears, eat poop, wear false ...

Butterflies are common throughout the world; however, there is more to them than meets the eye. From optical illusions in their wings to generation-spanning migrations and caterpillars committing ...

Whether it’s warm or freezing in Chicago.. It’s always 75-80 degrees inside the Peggy Notebaert Museum’s Butterfly Haven. Sarah went to check it out yesterday for the first time. It’s so beautiful..

About 25 youngsters, along with parents, friends and grandparents, were taught everything they ever would want to know about butterflies while attending Saturday's Family Workshop at the Quad-City ...