Monarch butterflies may hold the key to one of biology's biggest unsolved puzzles: how animals tap into Earth's magnetic ...

The Western Monarch Count is underway, a community science project that aims to understand population changes for the orange ...

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The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...

Monarch butterflies are fluttering dangerously close to extinction despite a decision late last year to remove the orange-and-black insects from the endangered species list, a new study has found. An ...

Welcoming butterflies to your garden is beneficial for the ecosystem. Here is one way to use outdated potting soil to ...

Insects and the plants they depend on are migrating in response to climate change, but not always in the same way.

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 are found across America, but are generally broken into eastern and western groups by the natural divide of the Rocky Mountains. California's monarch butterfly numbers are at an ...

In recent years, the number of monarch butterflies has been declining, and researchers don’t know the exact cause.