Hackberry emperor butterflies take flight at the entrance to the Roth Trailhead at the University of Kansas Field Station. A crowd slowed traffic one recent morning on a road north of Lawrence, but it ...

EVANSDALE — Residents in Evansdale, Gilbertville and Jesup are reporting an uptick in the number of butterflies flitting about, landing on plant life — and humans. Iowa State Extension and Outreach of ...

I was standing at Pavilion 1 in Lancaster County Central Park one day early in June when a hackberry butterfly landed on my left arm. Immediately its long, straw-like mouth came out and I could feel ...

When a butterfly alights on one’s shoulder, the poet Robert Browning would say, “God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world,” and I must concur with the bard. The hackberry butterfly that perched ...