Scientist Will Hawkes said the first sign he was about to witness one of nature's great migrations was being enveloped by a "blizzard of butterflies, cabbage whites and clouded yellows, like a storm ...

Pretty as a picture: Entomologist Tawny Simisky shared a photo of an adult cicada, found May 23 at the Frances A. Crane Wildlife Management Area in East Falmouth. "The insect was released unharmed," ...

On the weeds that border Parks Pond at Danbury’s Tarrywile Park, a blue dasher — a pale all-blue dragonfly — rested on bright green leaves, circled up into the blue sky, stopped again on the greenery, ...

NEWPORT BEACH (CBSLA) – The Southland is experiencing a rare sighting this week: about 1 billion butterflies swarming the skies during their migration from Mexico to the Pacific Northwest. The Painted ...

Woo! Science is a column of science news and newsmakers in Worcester and the region. Got a science news idea? Email Margaret Smith at [email protected]. With their bright red eyes and dapper, red ...

The 17-year cicada emergence is happening on Cape Cod and nearby areas. Cicadas are members of hemiptera, or true bugs. Citizen scientists can join the Cicada Brood XIV count. Woo! Science is a column ...