In New York, veterinarians at the Sweetbriar Nature Center helped a monarch butterfly live on by performing a wing transplant ...

Last weekend, Salisbury had a hand in one of the largest natural migrations taking place across the U.S., and it happened in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While navigation systems in automobiles are a fairly new (and still costly) innovation, monarch butterflies have managed for millennia to navigate their way for a distance of some 3000 miles (4800 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...