And now an environmental story with good news. After years of decline, monarch butterflies appear to be on the rebound. These butterflies migrate some 2,500 miles from Canada to forests in Mexico ...

A queen butterfly’s underwings resemble a monarch’s, with white outlines on black hindwing veins and dark borders featuring white dots. Orange forewings have white specks. I watched this queen ...

A monarch butterfly perches on a flower on July 28, in a field near Little Long Pond in Seal Harbor. Credit: Courtesy of Aislinn Sarnacki “Mission Monarch complete,” I said, grinning as I emerged from ...

As the weather starts to warm in Australia, you might notice the pleasant flutter of butterflies in your garden during the day. And perhaps if you’ve left a porch light on during the night, you will ...

Louisiana is home to numerous species of butterflies and, as the weather gets warmer, butterflies of various colors and patterns can be seen each year. Butterflies will hatch from their cocoons, or ...

Pesticides, habitat loss and climate change have taken their toll on the beloved insects. But the experts working with them still find hope for their future Western monarch butterflies bask in the sun ...