Environment editor Pat Brennan says: If you’ve noticed an influx of good-sized colorful butterflies in Orange County, you’re not alone. The painted lady migration is under way. So far, … ...

As monarch butterflies begin to show up along the California coast for their annual winter rest, called overwintering, environmentalists and those who love the imperial flutterers are nervously wai… ...

Butterflies are beautiful creatures that typically have magnificent coloring and are associated with sunshine, flowers, ...

The population of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has rebounded for a second year in a row after a precipitous drop in 2020, but the population of orange-and-black … ...

Monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast are rebounding for the second year in a row, after 2020 saw levels that put the insects closer to extinction. Fox News Media Fox Business ...

After steep and steady declines in the previous three years, the black-and-orange butterflies now cover only 1.65 acres in the pine and fir forests west of Mexico City, compared to 2.93 acres last ...

Federal wildlife officials proposed on Tuesday that monarch butterflies receive protection as a threatened species. The flashy orange and black butterflies, which flutter forth each year on an ...

A new genus of butterfly, with dark, eye-like spots on its distinctive orange wings, has been named after Sauron, the arch-villain of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic “The Lord of the Rings ...

Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back, the world's longest butterfly migration. In Constant Bloom ...