In early fall, the butterflies assemble by the dozens or hundreds on the South Shore before a journey of several weeks to ...

You've probably seen monarch butterflies, and maybe monarch caterpillars, but there's a lot to learn about the monarch life cycle stages.

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CAPE MAY POINT — On a recent Friday, Anya Held and Victoria Cope hopped into Cope’s Toyota Prius for a drive. Three times a day for two months, the 22-year-olds drive or walk a five-mile radius ...

A broken wing almost ended a monarch butterfly's journey on Long Island, but a wing transplant gave it a second chance to fly ...

An injured monarch butterfly was given a second chance at life after undergoing a delicate wing transplant at a Long Island ...

Feb. 28 (UPI) --African monarch butterflies aren't like other monarch species. Though their coloration is intended to advertise toxicity and ward off would-be predators, their pattern is highly ...

LOS OSOS, Calif. — There was the distinctive noise of something falling. Plop. Plop. Plop. It was the sound of pairs of monarch butterflies hitting the ground. Mating season, which sometimes involves ...

MISSOURI, USA — A Missouri Department of Conservation official recently spotted a ghostly variation of a Monarch butterfly in ...

San Diego Zoo Global sounded the alarm Monday after a count in November showed the population of monarch butterflies falling to an all-time low in California. Preliminary results from the 2020 Western ...

Like many poisonous animals, the African monarch butterfly's orange, white and black pattern warns predators that it is toxic. Warning patterns like this are usually consistent across individuals to ...