Monarch butterflies are at the beginning of an incredibly long migration south to overwinter. Here's where Michigan's ...

Monarch butterflies complete an annual migration that is thousands of miles long. How do they do it, and when does it take ...

Kelly Eden, a model and artist, started raising monarch butterflies last year. This summer, she released 10 healthy monarchs from her Los Angeles garden. But last month, two butterflies emerged from ...

The first monarch butterflies have appeared in the mountaintop forests of central Mexico where they spend the winter, Mexico’s Environment Department said Saturday. The first butterflies have been ...

Researchers find that the white spots on the wings of monarch butterflies may help them fly farther. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on June 21, 2023.) Monarch butterflies have distinctive ...

Butterflies' flight trajectories often appear random or chaotic, and compared with other hovering insects, their bodies follow seemingly mysterious, jagged, jerking motions. These unique hovering ...

Butterflies' flight trajectories often appear random or chaotic, but their hovering patterns can potentially provide critical design insights for developing micro aerial vehicles with flapping wings.