An injured butterfly can now fly after a wing transplant from a dead insect. The monarch butterfly was brought to Sweetbriar ...

Thanks to the engineers at Australia’s National University (ANU), the idea of flying butterflies powering the future was brought to the fore. Based on the wings of the Blue Morpho Didius butterfly, ...

Scientists have long wondered how butterflies fly. Compared with other flying animals, the creatures have unusually short, broad and large wings relative to their body size. Now, experts have found ...

Western North American monarch populations have declined dramatically in recent years, and captive-breeding programs offer some aid, but recent research reveals that these butterflies don’t fly south ...

Think of a monarch butterfly, and a distinctive image pops up: black-and-orange wings, with a sprinkling of white spots around the black edges. Those white spots may actually help monarchs complete ...

The state of Georgia is home to over 160 species of butterfly, from the humble common buckeye (Junonia coenia) to the dramatically striped zebra swallowtail (Eurytides marcellus). Many rely on native ...

It's Butterfly Madness at Thanksgiving Point -- and that means double the butterflies free-flying in the conservatory. On any typical day, there are up to 1,000 butterflies in the biosphere, but an ...