Biologists have attached tiny, solar transmitters to the monarch butterflies, allowing researchers and everyday visitors to ...

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For centuries, monarch butterflies have traveled thousands of miles across North America, guided by instincts that scientists ...

Every beautiful butterfly was once a caterpillar, and caterpillars have to eat. This may surprise you, but the average ...

Welcoming butterflies to your garden is beneficial for the ecosystem. Here is one way to use outdated potting soil to ...

For the first time in California, citizen scientists can join the effort to track monarch butterflies thanks to Blu+, a new ...

America’s butterflies are disappearing because of insecticides, climate change and habitat loss, with the number of the winged beauties down 22% since 2000, a new study finds. The first countrywide ...

In recent years, the number of monarch butterflies has been declining, and researchers don’t know the exact cause.

Monarch butterflies are fluttering dangerously close to extinction despite a decision late last year to remove the orange-and-black insects from the endangered species list, a new study has found. An ...

An international team discovered new types of butterflies that lay hidden in plain sight at the Natural History Museum.