Minnesota's state butterfly is scarce again this summer, a victim of two bad weather years in a row and the decline of caterpillar-sustaining milkweed in the landscape, experts say. Counts of ...

Thousands of monarch butterflies are making their annual arrive in Minnesota — one of the final destinations on the insects’ migration from Mexico. Fewer of the beloved butterflies are showing ...

Minnesota Zoo butterfly conservation biologist Erik Runquist runs after a Dakota skipper on a native prairie near Moorhead, Minn., on June 28. He's part of a team working to save the threatened ...

22% of butterflies in U.S. disappeared in 2 decades, ... Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called a special election in late April for the Brainerd Lakes-area seat vacated by former GOP state Sen. Justin ...

A butterfly species once common on Minnesota’s prairie is fluttering again over native flowers and grasses. Hundreds of endangered Dakota skipper butterflies were re-introduced recently to ...

BYRON — Monarch butterflies are Minnesota’s state insect and Oxbow Park and Zollman Zoo in Byron is tagging the monarchs they catch with a sticker and teaching the community about it. Oxbow ...

The official state butterfly since 2000, monarch butterflies are facing a major ecological threat, according to experts. Local, Western populations of monarchs have declined by around 30% compared to ...

A monarch butterfly on a purple coneflower in Moorhead, Minn., on July 29. A new artificial intelligence program will measure pollinator habitat in Minnesota and elsewhere.

Our hands are all over these butterflies, yet still they slip through our grasp. By the time you’re reading this, these Poweshieks will have died — the average adult only lives for a couple weeks.

While Emilie Snell-Rood was in Florida, she couldn’t resist trekking out to the mangroves to catch butterflies. She knew she could find a specimen needed for a study she was conducting; her research ...

MOORHEAD, Minn. — Erik Runquist saw it for a moment. Then it was gone. Walking a tract of Nature Conservancy-owned prairie outside Moorhead, Runquist caught a glimpse of a Dakota skipper, a ...