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From the rarest butterflies to the most common, your sightings contribute to conservation decisions, scientific knowledge, education, and more. Help us understand when and where butterflies occur. All you have to do is watch and report your butterfly sightings.
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Monarch Butterflies Show a Promising Rebound in Mexico’s 2025–2026 Overwintering Season
Monarch Butterflies Show a Promising Rebound in Mexico’s 2025–2026 Overwintering Season Every winter, monarch butterflies from eastern North America complete one of the most extraordinary migrations on Earth, gathering in the high-elevation oyamel fir and pine forests of central Mexico. For those of us who care about butterflies, migration, and conservation, the annual report on […]
The Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing is spreading its wings in the Indianapolis Zoo Uproar Conservation Challenge – and you can help!
Butterflies have long captured the imagination of people around the world, and maybe none more than the flamboyant rockstars of the butterfly world – the swallowtails! Amongst them, the Queen Alexandra Birdwing (Ornithoptera alexandrae) is the largest butterfly in the world! With this impressive accolade, there really is no better butterfly species to send into […]
Colombia: megadiverse butterflies
By Peter Hall, advisor to eButterfly Colombia, situated in northern South America just north of the equator, is considered by many as the country with the highest number of butterfly species (about 4000) in the world. It’s a destination that I had only visited once in my youth and have long desired to visit again. […]