The monarch butterfly is a beautiful and colorful creature, but it takes a while to reach that part of its adult life.

There’s no record telling us when monarch butterflies first began their journeys of up to 2,800 miles between southern Canada, the northern U.S., and central Mexico.

The dark cost of being toxic Sequestration of plant toxins by monarch butterflies leads to reduced warning signal conspicuousness Date: January 18, 2023 ...

Each fall, monarch butterflies will take flight en masse, moving more than 2,000 miles from the United States and Canada to their wintering grounds in Mexico. And in the summer, they repeat the ...

For the monarch and other butterflies this is not a trivial matter. An average monarch weighs roughly 500 milligrams; large raindrops have a mass of 70 milligrams or more.

Like its close relative the Monarch, the Queen is a poisonous species of butterfly, said to be quite bitter and distasteful. As such, the Viceroy, another species of butterfly, has adapted to look ...

Every year, Monarch butterflies from all over the Western U.S. migrate to coastal California to escape harsh winter weather. In the 1980s and '90s, more than a million made the trip. Lately, those ...

Dr. Chip Taylor, professor emeritus of ecology at University of Kansas, says the drop in Monarch butterflies numbers show how humans are affecting the Earth. (Video: Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) ...

What makes for a successful insect migration? For a monarch butterfly, the more white spots you have, the better your chances, new research suggests. Researchers from the University of Georgia ...

London - Butterflies with darker wings are better flyers, according to a study. Researchers from the University of Georgia in the US tested 121 captive monarch butterflies in an apparatus called a ...