As millions of monarch butterflies make their way down the east coast to Mexico for the winter, butterfly scientists want people in their flight path to report monarch sightings.

Monarch butterflies with more white spots on their mostly orange-and-black wings are more successful at long-distance migration. Some scientists think the spots may affect airflow around their wings.

The annual migration of monarch butterflies is one of science's great mysteries: millions of monarchs know the correct path even though they have never made the long journey themselves. As 60 ...

Monarch butterflies with more white spots on their mostly orange-and-black wings are more successful at long-distance migration. Some scientists think the spots may affect airflow around their wings.

Every year, monarch butterflies undertake the arduous 3,000-mile journey from the Great Lakes to winter in California and Mexico. They have followed this migratory path for centuries, pollinating ...

Monarch migration is one of the longest insect migrations in the world, with some butterflies traveling up to 3,000 miles. What makes this feat even more remarkable is that no single monarch ...

Walton blames the use of herbicides and pesticides for the decline in the monarch butterflies. If cattle eat milkweed, it can ...

How the monarch butterfly got its spots. The second part of the study evaluated size differences in white spots between the monarch and six of its closest cousins in the genus Danaus.. When study ...

SPRINGDALE, Ark. — The annual Monarch Flight Festival released around 50 monarch butterflies on Sept. 14. Every year the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History partners with Downtown Springdale to raise ...

Monarch butterflies' white spots may help them fly farther, scientists say. Nell Greenfieldboyce; June 21, 2023 / 11:03 am ... easing the butterflies' flight.

Monarch butterflies with more white spots on their mostly orange-and-black wings are more successful at long-distance migration. Some scientists think the spots may affect airflow around their wings.