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The western monarch butterfly has experienced a 95% dip in population since the 1980s.

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The British swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machaon britannicus) is the U.K.'s only native swallowtail and its largest native ...

More than 20,000 votes cast in Butterfly Conservation’s poll of 60 native species to find nation’s favourite for first time ...

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A large international team has genetically mapped glasswing butterflies found across Central and South America, rewriting the evolutionary tree and highlighting six new species. The team includes ...

On the first day of a new year Lea Korsgaard, a Danish journalist, decided she would set out to see every species of ...

Some butterfly species there are impressively long-lived. They seem to remain young almost forever and show no obvious signs ...

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