Since gulf fritillary adults were feeding on pinwheel zinnia in the backyard, I placed the pots in the same bed and hoped that the deer would not eat them before the butterflies found them.

Ahead of the Big Butterfly Count next month, one of the UK’s rarest butterflies – that was once on ‘the brink of extinction’ – is rising in numbers. The heath fritillary butterfly, nicknamed the ...

Where the monarch is the king of butterflies, the "Queen of the Prairie" is needing help. Monarch butterflies can travel long distances, like to Mexico, but regal fritillary butterflies stick to ...

FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. — Fort Indiantown Gap announced Friday that the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs will be conducting free guided tours of the only population of the ...

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The Fort Indiantown Gap military base in Lebanon County is home to the world's only surviving population of the eastern regal fritillary, a large butterfly that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

A large, orange-ish colored butterfly began staying around our garden a few days ago. At first glance, I thought it was a monarch since a few of them have been around for the past week or so. Looking ...

At Fort Indiantown Gap in northern Lebanon County, a vast stretch of grassland houses the only population of the rare regal fritillary butterfly in the eastern United States. Several of these ...

The annual regal fritillary butterfly tours at Fort Indiantown Gap in northern Lebanon County have been canceled for 2020. The extremely rare butterfly species have been featured in early July for ...

It's not easy to see the orange and black spotted regal fritillary butterfly if you live in the Eastern U.S. It used to be common across much of the country, and is still found in the Midwest. But ...