Each fall, millions of monarchs from Canada and the U.S. travel thousands of miles to reach their winter home in the mountain forests of central Mexico. But this year's migration comes with a new ...

As a child, Rebeca Quiñonez-Piñón wondered where monarch butterflies stop for a meal and a night’s rest on their long ...

It's about that time of year for Oklahomans to spot monarch butterflies, the orange-and-black-winged insect known for their twice-yearly migrations across the continent as they pass through the state ...

As fall begins, monarch butterflies are also making their annual journey south for winter. Millions of monarchs are traveling over parts of the U.S. now, stopping only at night. Some will even make a ...

Scientists attempt to solve monarch butterfly mystery using tiny tracking devices - Swarms of monarchs navigate some 3,000 ...

Monarch butterflies are the only butterfly species known to make a two-way migration of up to 3,000 miles each year. Peak monarch migration season in North Carolina occurs from mid-September through ...

From 2003 to 2019, amateur butterfly enthusiast Harlan Radcliff spent his lunch breaks observing butterflies on the grounds of the Camp Dodge military installation in central Iowa. Diane Debinski, ...

It’s easy to imagine birds migrating - flying in flocks high in the sky, wings beating. But butterflies? Their wings are small, beautiful, and fragile as flower petals. Yet migrate they do…thousands ...

Butterflies may be free, unless you're a monarch butterfly, that is. The winged little creature is on the endangered species list, according to Vanessa Williams with the National Wildlife Federation.

Monarch butterflies are nearing the end of their annual fall migration to Mexico, with the journey continuing through late October. The journey typically begins in late summer and early fall, when a ...