CHICO — Chico biologist Sterling Mattoon is donating his extensive collection of 60,000 butterfly specimens to the University of Florida — after more than 70 years of collecting. “I’m 92 years old,” ...

Scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey are asking people to mail in deceased butterflies, moths and skippers to establish a research collection. The Lepidoptera Research Collection will help USGS ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Today’s something good comes all the way from California! A biologist is giving away his butterfly collection with more than 60,000 species. For more than 70 years, ...

Conservation can be hard work. But not when it comes to helping these little orange and brown beauties ...

Every winter, a marvelous spectacle occurs as hundreds of thousands of butterflies travel south across Taiwan in one of the world’s most rare migrations. Purple crow butterflies are deeply beloved in ...

IT is very gratifying to notice how frequently, at the present day, large private collections of objects of natural history, when of real importance, find their final resting-place in the British ...