Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Baltimore checkerspot basks on a cool sunny morning in Coshocton County. (the-columbus-dispatch) About 140 species of ...

DARLINGTON, Md. (7News) — Maryland's state insect, the Baltimore Checkerspot, has been quickly disappearing for years now. The butterfly is one of the most beautiful in the state but, nowadays, it's ...

A few summers ago, I was walking my dog in a pasture near my house when a butterfly landed on my bare leg. It was a medium-sized black butterfly with orange crescents along the margins of its wings ...

This morning brought the alarming news that Maryland's state insect, the Baltimore checkerspot butterfly, is endangered. I'm kidding, of course — not that the butterfly is endangered, which is true.