With its charismatic appearance and awe-inspiring migrations, it's not surprising that the monarch butterfly motivates ...

Monarch butterflies only flap their wings around 5 to 12 times per second — much more slowly than the average butterfly, who flaps about 20 times a second. In the right conditions, a migrating monarch ...

Hummingbirds aren't the only spring-time animals on the move across Georgia. Sightings of monarch butterflies have been seen predominantly near southern cities like Savannah and St. Mary's ...

Monarch butterflies have been spotted in south Georgia. ... Monarch Butterfly Migration 2025: When to expect the orange and black flutterers in Georgia.

The monarch butterfly, with its striking orange and black markings, has become a beloved species but faces significant challenges, as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced an estimated 80% ...

Texas’ state insect, the black and orange-winged Monarch butterfly, could be granted federal protections after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed this week to list the animal as a th… ...

Conventional wisdom is that if you cultivate host plants, butterflies will come. Take, for example, milkweed. After declining monarch populations began making headlines in the late 1990s, people ...

Unlike the flashy orange and black warning colors of an adult monarch butterfly, the adult milkweed tussock moth has wings of a muted gray but does retain some yellow and black striping on its ...

Researchers believe this may be an isolated population from an ancestor species that went extinct everywhere else.