When telling a friend about your favorite type of butterfly, you probably start by describing its wings. After all, a butterfly’s wings are its most attractive feature. We know a lot about a butterfly ...

Young children are often taught that caterpillars form a chrysalis and transform into butterflies. However, the exact details of metamorphosis aren’t always clarified due to the complicated biological ...

Feds float ESA protections for ‘threatened’ monarch butterfly. By Michael Doyle | 12/10/2024 02:00 PM EST . Although it has been in decline, the butterfly is found throughout the United States ...

On Tuesday, the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster and the Government of Mexico are joining forces to protect one of North America’s greatest migration spectacles, the migration of the Monarch… ...

The question this Earth Day is not whether we can save the monarch butterfly − we can − but whether we will. Approval rating sinks Stop mocking me Get the latest views Submit a column.

There’s little debate that the monarch’s epic yearly migration is in trouble. Analyses of fall-migrating monarchs collected through the Journey North program, in which citizen scientists report the ...

Monarch butterfly populations have plummeted due to habitat loss, pesticide use and climate change. In early December, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is going to decide whether the monarch ...

MEXICO CITY — A recent study by the Worldwide Fund has revealed a promising increase in the population of the eastern monarch butterfly, marking a significant r ...

Dramatic recent declines in the size of monarch butterfly ( Danaus plexippus ) roosts during fall migration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (43) DOI: 10.1073/pnas ...

The annual migration of monarch butterflies is one of science's great mysteries: millions of monarchs know the correct path even though they have never made the long journey themselves. As 60 ...