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 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, ...

New research shows climate change may push monarch butterflies farther south and make their long migration harder in the ...

APPLE VALLEY, Minn. (AP) — The 20 tiny butterfly larvae being cared for by a Minnesota Zoo biologist could represent the last hope for a species that used to be ubiquitous across the state’s prairies.

Every autumn, swarms of migrating monarchs descend on the mountains of central Mexico. It is the final stop on a journey of thousands of miles, as the butterflies travel from their North American ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A tiny, fuzzy, and endangered butterfly is being found in more places in the wild because scientists are determined to save it from extinction. Conservation scientists at John Ball ...

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 ...