We can't get enough of the Red Admiral butterflies that have swept into New York City. Yesterday's beautiful weather meant that many were fluttering about in the sky—or taking the D train. We asked Dr. Christie Johnson, curatorial associate at the American Museum of Natural History's Division of Invertebrate Zoology, about the Vanessa atalanta and learned how we, as New Yorkers, can attract them! more ›

Have you been seeing an unusual number of orange and black butterflies fluttering about? Well, they are probably Red Admiral butterflies, which are in the middle of a migration from the South. (Update: Some Red Admirals will end up settling in NYC!) We spotted the one above during Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer's press conference by the West 72nd Street subway station—there were dozens of butterflies flying around, landing on everything! more ›

Yesterday our photographer Katie Sokoler made her annual trek to the Butterfly Conservatory at the American Museum of Natural History, which focuses on "Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter." The 1,200-square-foot vivarium houses 500 iridescent butterflies that hover above visitors—but Sokoler tells us that when things were calm in there, the butterflies would come down and land on the visitors. (Pro tip: try to remember they're butterflies when you feel them crawling all over you—we heard the knee jerk reaction was to swat them!) more ›