Trillions of insects move around the globe each year. Scientists are working on new ways to map those long-distance journeys.

Summer is peak butterfly season, but this year many noticed not as many as usual — and that’s due to a decline that’s been in ...

Pollen is what this group dreads most from spring all the way into November. Butterfly tattoos may be cute, but the actual ...

Butterflies and moths collect so much static electricity while in flight, that pollen grains from flowers can be pulled by static electricity across air gaps of several millimeters or centimeters.

According to the US Forest Service, the zebra longwing butterfly not only consumes nectar from the flower but the pollen as ...

You might find it hard to believe, but butterflies and moths can collect static electricity while in flight. Even more astounding is that this static electricity can then be used to pull pollen ...

The greedy zebra butterfly's protein-rich diet of pollen is fuelling its remarkably long lifespan. A taste for pollen is rare in the butterfly world - most species rely on sugar-laden nectar or fruit ...

(Adult butterflies feed on plant nectar and are not affected by toxin-containing pollen.) In the earlier Nature paper, Cornell entomologist John Losey used a low toxic strain of pollen. He ...

The Scottish government has set out a 10-year plan to halt the decline of bee and butterfly populations. The number of pollinating insects in Scotland, including bees, butterflies and hoverflies ...

The study, published today in Current Biology, investigates the neural foundations of behavioural innovation in Heliconius butterflies, the only genus known to feed on both nectar and pollen. As part ...