This year the organization counted 9,119 monarchs, the second-lowest total since tracking began in 1997. The organization has ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf have developed flexible ...

Researchers have developed robotic wings that mimic the movement of butterfly wings using only magnetic fields, with no need ...

DESCRIPTION: The monarch is a large orange butterfly that flies with its wings held in a “v” shape ... The second instar larva develops a characteristic pattern of white, yellow and black transverse ...

The number of monarch butterflies spending winter in the western U.S. dropped dramatically this year, despite moves to extend ...

A Monarch butterfly born in Canada will fly more than 3,000 miles to Mexico, across land it has never seen. Its journey is filled with peril, many never make it and those that do will never return.

Researchers created flexible robot wings inspired by monarchs, powered by magnetic fields. They enable precise movement ...

In a 2022 study, we analyzed counts of monarch butterflies during the North American Butterfly Association’s annual butterfly ... They did this by comparing observed patterns of genetic variation with ...

Madison Kuhle, 5, Lawrence, poses as a butterfly for her father at the Monarch Watch open house Saturday at Foley Hall on Kansas University's campus. Maxx Marshall, 4, Lawrence, gets an up-close ...

Floral Winged Butterfly Imagine wings made of blooming flowers ... Mosaic Capture the vibrant life of a monarch by recreating it with a mosaic pattern. This concept offers a colorful and intricate ...

Citizen scientists are called on to help with tagging monarch butterflies and find out why their numbers are dropping.