Butterflies

The Cape Town artist transforms her passion for wildlife into sustainable designs

Each season brings beauty in South Africa, but phenological events are occurring ever earlier due to climate change

Butterfly and moth species, which are indicators of change in ecosystems, are declining with some becoming extinct.

Habitat destruction, the use of pesticides and climate change is driving the rapid decline of these tiny creatures

Locals in the Arabuko Sokoke reserve are cultivating butterflies to help conserve the area’s vast indigenous forests

The Quino checkerspot butterfly has saved itself from extinction by shifting to a higher altitude and picking a new species of plant for laying eggs.

South African lepidopterists are in a flutter after the discovery of a second colony of critically endangered Wolkberg Zulu butterflies.