Its flashy red or orange wings make the Florida leafwing butterfly easy to spot in flight, but it gets its name from the tricks of camouflage that allow the brown or gray underside of its wings — ...

From above, there are black markings on the upper side and three white dots ... “I took this photo (above) at the Florida Botanical Gardens in Largo, Florida. The butterfly’s orange-and ...

Schaus's swallowtail is endemic to south Florida and one of the rarest butterflies in the United States. It was among the first insects placed on the U.S. endangered species list, and since the ...

But an alarming decline in state monarch butterfly populations exposes a larger trend: Florida’s wildlife is disappearing. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service just acted on behalf of the monarchs ...