Western North American monarch populations have declined dramatically in recent years, and captive-breeding programs offer some aid, but recent research reveals that these butterflies don’t fly south ...

June 25 (UPI) --Monarch butterflies bred in captivity may lose their sense of direction. When researchers at the University of Chicago bought and released monarch butterflies from a commercial breeder ...

Scientists have long wondered how butterflies fly. Compared with other flying animals, the creatures have unusually short, broad and large wings relative to their body size. Now, experts have found ...

Think of a monarch butterfly, and a distinctive image pops up: black-and-orange wings, with a sprinkling of white spots around the black edges. Those white spots may actually help monarchs complete ...

The state of Georgia is home to over 160 species of butterfly, from the humble common buckeye (Junonia coenia) to the dramatically striped zebra swallowtail (Eurytides marcellus). Many rely on native ...

It's Butterfly Madness at Thanksgiving Point -- and that means double the butterflies free-flying in the conservatory. On any typical day, there are up to 1,000 butterflies in the biosphere, but an ...

Amy Rose Perry always knew she wanted to release monarch butterflies at her Cape Cod wedding in honor of her father, Nathaniel Machain, who died on Aug. 5, 1999 when she was just 7 years old. When she ...

If any time marks the beginning of the monarch butterflies’ travels across North America, it's the early days of spring. During the coming weeks, the two monarch populations will migrate as far as ...

Scientists have long wondered how butterflies fly – compared with other flying animals, the creatures have unusually short, broad and large wings relative to their body size. Now, experts have found ...