Despite New Jersey's reputation as an Industrial wasteland, some of the best butterflying in the USA lies within its boundaries for those who know when and where to look.
Big Pine Key, in Florida's Lower Keys, boasts an unusual number of butterflies found only in South Florida and the Keys. But a number of them are disappearing for unknown reasons.
In the aftermath of the recent superstorm that slammed the east coast of North America, studies on butterflies and other life forms shifting their ranges in response to climate change have taken on a new urgency.
WildMetro, a conservation group dedicated to preserving and enhancing natural areas in urban environments, is battling invasive plants, saplings that want to be shade trees and vandals in an effort to maintain a beautiful meadow in the Bronx.
Moths are the new butterflies! More diverse, more exciting and, in many cases, more colorful, the nocturnal branch of the Lepidoptera is finally getting its due.
A species of wasp is being enlisted by forestry agents and conservationists in the eastern USA and Canada to detect and monitor the spread of a destructive invasive beetle known as the Emerald Ash Borer.
