By Ifham Nizam  Sri Lanka has long been a land of unparalleled natural beauty, blessed with a rich biodiversity that has ...

Perhaps the best-known insect migrant is the monarch butterfly ... Chile and Argentina, southern Africa, and Australia and New Zealand, covering 2,500 km each way. Their migration is fuelled ...

The researchers believe that these butterflies took part in their annual migration south from Europe ... likely birthplace of Europe, then to Africa and South America, the butterflies’ journey ...

See rare African butterflies. Journey from Uganda to South Africa, uncover biodiversity hotspots and get expert travel tips.

"This species has been reported in South Africa to migrate for hundreds of miles up to the island of Madagascar. The butterfly's migration in Kenya has not received adequate research to determine ...

A recent study published in the open-access journal African Invertebrates ... of the endemic Cape Autumn widow butterfly (Dira clytus), a species endemic to South Africa. In the study, Silvia ...

Great white sharks migrate 12,400 miles between South Africa to Western ... This is the longest migration by land of any mammal on Earth. Monarch butterflies fly about 3,000 miles each year.

The experts have recorded as many as 10,000 butterflies in the area - mostly of the blue-spotted crow variety. These butterflies take a break here during their migration every winter, from ...