Many animals have evolved camouflage tactics for self-defense, but some butterflies and moths have taken it even further: They've developed transparent wings, making them almost invisible to predators ...

Why Do Monarch Butterflies Swarm? Monarch butterflies, like other butterfly species and birds, must migrate to warmer climates during the cold winter months. Monarch butterflies are unique because ...

A Butterfly's Wing Reveals a Secret That Took Scientists Years to Understand ...

Thanks to the tagging efforts of the Loess Hills Master Naturalists, Monarch Watch, an organization based at the University of Kansas that tracks and studies monarch butterflies, has ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature placed the monarch butterfly on its Red List of Threatened Species as endangered in July, but despite decades of declining numbers, the delicate ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- Thousands of breathtaking butterflies from around the world have taken flight in Olbrich's Tropical Conservatory in honor of the Blooming Butterflies exhibit. "They have their own ...

The monarch butterfly population in Mexico is on the rise again, following several years in which the number of butterflies had dwindled to worrying lows. In a report from the World Wildlife ...

The University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee campus offers the perfect habitat for professors and students. It turns out a rare tropical butterfly, whose survival as a species depends on a plant ...

A team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists studied the development of one such species, the glasswing butterfly, Greta oto, to see through the secrets of this natural stealth ...