The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is encouraging wildlife enthusiasts to help Monarch butterflies ...

A pollinator admired for its beauty and migratory endurance, monarch butterflies are being proposed for addition as an ...

This summer's drought and record-breaking heat could affect the fall migration of the endangered monarch butterfly, according ...

The iconic monarch butterfly is declining across North America. You can help make a difference by providing the species with its food plant: milkweed.

Instead of overwintering, monarch butterflies migrate by swarming together in roosts of hundreds or thousands. Swarming helps monarch butterflies stay warm and ward off any predators they might ...

The monarch butterfly is boldly colored as an adult and a caterpillar, using a type of signaling known as aposematism, in which conspicuous colors and patterns warn possible predators that the ...

And butterflies, unlike most other insects, are more easily identified by pictures that people can take with their phones.” Donner Summit is one of the local regions where butterflies have been ...

In the natural world predation is relentless, and evading predators strongly favors the evolution of camouflage colors in animals. How contradictory, then, for small, defenseless creatures — like red ...