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He zooms in to take a closer look. And on the distinctive ‘flame’ of the butterfly, the scarlet patch on the dark brown hind wing, there it is: it looks like it’s been patched up with red paint.

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 ...

US butterfly populations have declined by 22% since 2000, with 114 species showing significant drops. A study published in Science found insecticides, climate change, and habitat loss are driving ...

Over the past 20 years the U.S. butterfly population has declined 22 ... "They're really easy to identify on the wing," Edwards said. "I've done wasp studies where you have to catch them and ...