Monarch butterflies in Northern California are adapting to a changing climate by embracing an unexpected strategy: breeding in the winter. The shift could be key to the survival of the iconic insect, ...

Kiki Sylvain has spent the last 10 years of her career breeding butterflies at her company SK Butterflies. Many different signs inspired Sylvain to start the business including the day she found a ...

Female monarch butterflies have no trouble finding a mate -- even when a parasite kills most of the males, new research shows. Female monarch butterflies have no trouble finding a mate -- even when a ...

Monarch butterfly breeding populations have remained stable since 1993, a study published in Global Change Biology on Friday found, disputing previous concerns raised by scientists that the butterfly ...

An international research team in search of painted lady butterfly breeding grounds in Africa has published the results of years of fieldwork. In the paper, "The Afrotropical breeding grounds of the ...

Female monarch butterflies have no trouble finding a mate – even when a parasite kills most of the males, new research shows. Some females carry a parasite called Spiroplasma that kills all their male ...