LOS ANGELES — The smell struck undercover agent Ed Newcomer as soon as he entered the small, sparse apartment. Faint and rancid, it permeated everything. It clung to the plastic containers that piled ...

At home in the muggy surroundings of a New York City museum, an iridescent blue butterfly swoops and flutters with jaunty familiarity. The Costa Rican Morpho is so comfortable, in fact, that its ...

After an absence of nearly a year, exotic butterflies are returning to The Leaf at Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park. "The first shipment of tropical butterfly chrysalides arrived and were placed in the ...

A blue clipper butterfly from Asia rested on flowers inside the conservatory at the Powell Gardens Festival of Butterflies. Susan Pfannmuller Special to The Star Inside Look is a Star series that ...

Want to see a flurry of tropical butterflies in the Ozarks? Head to The Butterfly Palace in Branson. And here’s a tip to attract the insects to you: wear red. I recently visited the Branson attraction ...

Two yellow-winged ethilla butterflies act out a courtship ritual involving intricate aerial maneuvers, headlong chases and delicate caresses. Although native to Trinidad, the pair are among the more ...

Bug thieves. They exist, apparently, and cops in Cincinnati say there's one on the loose in the Buckeye State. The Cincinnati Police Department says a woman absconded with a blue morpho butterfly from ...

She was seeking shade from the hot sun at Brazos Bend State Park where she works as a volunteer. She headed for the canopy of trees at the beginning of the Creekfield Nature Trail. "I stopped at the ...

Ohio police have nabbed the brazen thief they say made off with a rare butterfly from an Ohio botanical garden exhibit two weeks ago. Cincinnati police charged pink-haired Jamie Revis, 36, of ...