A Monarch butterfly born in Canada will fly more than 3,000 miles to Mexico, across land it has never seen. Its journey is filled with peril, many never make it and those that do will never return.

Monarch butterflies only flap their wings around 5 to 12 times per second — much more slowly than the average butterfly, who flaps about 20 times a second. In the right conditions, a migrating monarch ...

What makes monarch butterflies so incredible is their annual ... Male butterflies have blue bodies and gray-blue wings with white trim around the edges, and females are dustier-colored.

Researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf have developed flexible ...

Researchers have developed robotic wings that mimic the movement of butterfly wings using only magnetic fields, with no need ...

Thogmartin and other researchers have evaluated more than 200 scenarios for restoring greater than 1.3 billion stems of ...

DESCRIPTION: The monarch is a large orange butterfly that flies with its wings held in a “v” shape ... The larva then molts to reveal an opaque, blue-green chrysalis adorned with gold dots. At normal ...

Madison Kuhle, 5, Lawrence, poses as a butterfly for her father at the Monarch Watch open house Saturday at Foley Hall on Kansas University's campus. Maxx Marshall, 4, Lawrence, gets an up-close ...

A Monarch butterfly born in Canada will fly more than 3,000 miles to Mexico, across land it has never seen. Its journey is filled with peril, many never make it and those that do will never return.