butterflies

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A hundred blue butterflies have been released in Stratford-upon-Avon to mark Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

His Turner Endangered Species Fund, launched in June 1997, has worked to save gopher tortoises, monarch butterflies and leopard frogs, working mainly with private landowners.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

Despite their evolutionary distance, the team discovered that both butterflies and moths repeatedly relied on the same two genes, ivory and optix, to produce nearly identical warning colors.

From Science Daily • May 4, 2026

One of its projects is to identify which plants are most effective for supporting pollinators including bees, wasps, butterflies and moths.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

We were barely over the cerro when we saw them to the right of us, in a clearing, on yet another hill: hundreds of snout-nosed butterflies hovering over dozens of rosebushes.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall