Every so often, unseasonably mild weather will rouse butterflies from hibernation earlier than usual in the Inland Northwest. But in January? That’s plain extraordinary.

The other morning, it was just cool enough to put on a jacket for the first time this “year.” Yes, that sounds strange to me, too. I suppose every profession has a different start to their “year” — ...

Every winter, a marvelous spectacle occurs as hundreds of thousands of butterflies travel south across Taiwan in one of the world’s most rare migrations.