Texas' official state insect is on its way from Canada to Mexico — and you may be just in time to witness the remarkable ...

It's been an unusually hot fall in Texas, and that may explain why the iconic southbound march of the monarch butterfly ...

CAPE MAY POINT — On a recent Friday, Anya Held and Victoria Cope hopped into Cope’s Toyota Prius for a drive. Three times a day for two months, the 22-year-olds drive or walk a five-mile radius ...

Feb. 28 (UPI) --African monarch butterflies aren't like other monarch species. Though their coloration is intended to advertise toxicity and ward off would-be predators, their pattern is highly ...

LOS OSOS, Calif. — There was the distinctive noise of something falling. Plop. Plop. Plop. It was the sound of pairs of monarch butterflies hitting the ground. Mating season, which sometimes involves ...

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its second-lowest mark in nearly three decades as pesticides, diminishing habitat and climate change ...

Like many poisonous animals, the African monarch butterfly's orange, white and black pattern warns predators that it is toxic. Warning patterns like this are usually consistent across individuals to ...

San Diego Zoo Global sounded the alarm Monday after a count in November showed the population of monarch butterflies falling to an all-time low in California. Preliminary results from the 2020 Western ...

A broken wing almost ended a monarch butterfly's journey on Long Island, but a caring hand and a clever idea gave it a second chance to fly again. At the Sweetbriar Nature Center in Smithtown, experts ...