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

Van der Heide got her start at Cal Poly, tagging monarchs by numbering their wings in Sharpie and trying to find them later ...

A monarch butterfly with a critical wing injury was given a second chance to fly after New York rescuers performed an intricate transplant procedure. The vulnerable insect was brought to Sweetbriar ...

Think of a monarch butterfly, and a distinctive image pops up: black-and-orange wings, with a sprinkling of white spots around the black edges. Those white spots may actually help monarchs complete ...

Every year, thousands of butterflies migrate from New England to the warmer airs of central Mexico, some 3,000 miles away. Scientists across the country are studying their migration patterns through a ...

If everything in nature goes to plan, it won’t be long before hundreds of thousands of monarch butterflies make their yearly journey north, passing over Washington and perhaps even making the ...

Monarch butterflies with more white spots on their mostly orange-and-black wings are more successful at long-distance migration. Some scientists... Monarch butterflies' white spots may help them fly ...

The white spots on a monarch butterfly's wings may help it migrate, according to a new study. (Pat Davis) Think of a monarch butterfly, and a distinctive image pops up: black-and-orange wings, with a ...