Editor’s note: The Wild is all about featuring a variety of exciting voices from SoCal’s outdoors scene. For the next several weeks, that voice will belong to Times staff writer Lila Seidman. A native ...

A juniper hairstreak butterfly in Clermont County. Volunteers observed 177 of these butterflies during the 2025 Clermont County Butterfly Count. Local citizen scientists are counting butterflies this ...

A "Butterfly Emergency" has highlighted the need for wildlife-friendly gardens ahead of this summer's Big Butterfly Count. The Butterfly Conservation Society's annual event will take place from Friday ...

If you are only out for numbers, you count, count, count." The data collected from both days will be sent to the Vermont Institute of Natural Science Vermont Butterfly Survey, which is in its sixth ...

The annual Big Butterfly Count is back for another year, taking place from Friday 18 July to Sunday 10 August 2025. But what is it, and how can we get involved? Here’s what you need to know.

A Variegated Fritillary was among the butterflies spotted Saturday during The Nature Conservancy's butterfly count. Below: A question mark butterfly rests on a leaf Saturday at the Tallgrass Prairie ...

PISMO BEACH, Calif. – On Thursday, invertebrate conservation group the Xerxes Society released the results of their 28th annual Western Monarch Butterfly Count and recorded the second lowest ...