Mackinac Island features one of the nation's top butterfly gardens, per the USA TODAY 10BEST Readers' Choice Awards. Here's what to know.

Realistic in detail, the oversize sculptures — some of which tower up to 12 feet high and weigh several hundred pounds — are part of Heveri’s mission to spread entomophilia, ...

Butterfly and beetle-pinning classes are a great introduction to taxidermy, says Salem. The Insect Asylum is full of outsider and vernacular art. It’s also a place for visitors to learn with ...

The researchers behind the Science study used data from more than 12.6 million butterflies spanning 342 individual species, drawing ... butterfly decline is part of a larger global trend of insect ...

This was Rosie’s last rodeo, her final time — for now — being held in the hands of a visitor at the Philadelphia Insectarium and Butterfly ... preserved and living insects, artwork, antiques ...

Among the species hardest hit is the monarch butterfly, with its vivid orange-and-black wings and one of the most ...

He wanted to create a kinetic, interactive sculpture, then plant it somewhere in the Tucson Botanical Gardens. He knew ...

Entomologists have discovered Papilio solstitius, a new tiger swallowtail butterfly that appears in summer in eastern North America.