You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. It’s the first week in September, a warm sunny day. Late this morning I saw ...

For most Washingtonians, the arrival of spring means relief from the dreariness and gloom of winter. But I have an additional reason to hail the advent of warm weather and sunshine: the return of ...

CENTER POINT - A Red Admiral, a black butterfly with a red stripe on its wing, flits onto the white blossom of a pear tree in Dennis Schlicht's front yard. "That's kind of like the earliest on record, ...

Like the homely, warty toad transformed by a kiss to an enchanting prince, embarrassing excremental smears and lumps of who-knows-what metamorphose into delicate and lovely butterflies A male ...

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Janice Lord is a member of the Entomological Society of New Zealand. Connal McLean is a volunteer with The Moths and Butterflies of New Zealand Trust. University of Otago provides funding as a member ...