Protected beauty: the snake’s head fritillary meadow at Cricklade, Wiltshire, is one of several UK locations granted Site of Special Scientific Interest status Credit: Photo: Alamy Fritillaries are as ...

Northland summers are well known for bugs. Many of these now active in the region, such as mosquitoes, blackflies, deerflies and the first horseflies, are not too appreciated by most of us. But other ...

Imperial fritillaries are the first whopper garden bulb to flower in spring. You've got alliums, lilies and eremurus later, but it's the good old crown imperial which gives you drama early in the year ...

Fall is the season of Gulf Fritillaries in the Lowcountry. These medium-sized orange butterflies are often confused with Monarchs (Danaus plexippus), but it’s fairly easy to tell the difference.

Wyre Forest, Worcestershire: The male pearl-bordered fritillaries were laying pheromone trails low along the track The amber flicker materialised in air so saturated that it steamed through the trees, ...

Butterflies have been with us for months, from March on. With the longer and warmer days of early spring, the hibernating anglewing butterflies emerge and take wing, often on clear, mild, March days.

Today The Independent's Great British Butterfly Hunt turns its attention to a butterfly family that contains some of our rarest and most rapidly-declining species, the fritillaries. An unusual name: ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...