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 ...

Around this time last year, my wife noticed some black spots on the parsley and dill growing in our garden at home. I didn’t ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Dozens of monarch butterflies danced toward clear blue skies, softly beating their black-and-orange wings as a crowd formed around them. A short distance away, tiny monarch ...

Like its close relative the Monarch, the Queen is a poisonous species of butterfly, said to be quite bitter and distasteful. As such, the Viceroy, another species of butterfly, has adapted to look ...

A Blue Bell woman is doing her part to help Monarch Butterflies, whose numbers are dwindling because the one plant the caterpillars can eat is being wiped out by herbicide use and habitat loss.

Blue dots, left antenna painted black; red dots, right antenna painted black. Migrants were flown between 1300 and 1500 hours from 23 October to 20 November 2010. Left upper, experimental condition.

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… ...

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 ...