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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 Butterfly populations in the United States have dropped by almost a quarter in the last two decades, according to a new analysis published ...

Two-thirds of studied species declined by more than 10%, the study said. Butterfly populations have dropped by 22% across 554 recorded species in the United States, according to a new study in the ...

The findings revealed that 33% of butterfly species have experienced significant population declines over the past two decades, with 107 out of the 342 species examined losing more than half of ...

according to research spanning hundreds of species from the red admiral butterfly to the American lady to the cabbage white. Data from about 76,000 butterfly surveys conducted by various groups ...

Some species have experienced drastic population losses: The red admiral butterfly, known for landing on people, is down 44%. The American lady butterfly, recognized by its eyespots, has declined 58%.

We found declines in just about every region of the continental U.S. and across almost all butterfly species ... They inspire people, from art to literature and poetry. They deserve to exist ...

Butterflies are beloved creatures that inspire art and play an important ecological ... A new study published in Science examines butterfly data in the United States, and the results are troubling.

The Danaus eresimus, commonly known as the soldier butterfly, is among the 20 butterfly ... Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species and Endangered Species Act ...

The study, published Thursday in the journal Science, is the most comprehensive tally of U.S. butterfly populations to date. Nick Haddad, a Michigan State University ecologist who co-wrote the ...

Researchers compiled data on more than five hundred butterfly species across the United States from 2000 to 2020. Some species are faring better than others, but overall, butterfly numbers dropped ...

Still, researchers didn’t have enough data to include some of the most imperiled butterfly species, which probably experienced some of the steepest declines. And the data was quite likely biased ...