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 ...

Some morpho butterflies live and fly high in the canopy of the Amazonian rainforest, and have evolved into highly-efficient gliding flyers. These results revealed by Wageningen University & Research ...

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 ...

THIS STORY ORIGINALLY appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian. The dozen butterflies were flying gracefully over a beach in French Guiana when Gerard Talavera spotted them. It ...

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 ...

Insect populations have been in decline the last 20 years, so if you want to do your part to help them this is what you need ...

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 ...

More than 20,000 votes cast in Butterfly Conservation’s poll of 60 native species to find nation’s favourite for first time ...

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.

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 ...