While navigation systems in automobiles are a fairly new (and still costly) innovation, monarch butterflies have managed for millennia to navigate their way for a distance of some 3000 miles (4800 ...

Scientists have long wondered how butterflies fly. Compared with other flying animals, the creatures have unusually short, broad and large wings relative to their body size. Now, experts have found ...

An injured butterfly can now fly after a wing transplant from a dead insect. The monarch butterfly was brought to Sweetbriar Nature Center in Long Island, New York, with its wing bent and torn, unable ...

Think of a monarch butterfly, and a distinctive image pops up: black-and-orange wings, with a sprinkling of white spots around the black edges. Those white spots may actually help monarchs complete ...

Southern Illinois and central Missouri are getting a little storm. A storm of monarch butterflies. That's right: droves of monarch butterflies migrating south for the winter made their way onto the ...

June 25 (UPI) --Monarch butterflies bred in captivity may lose their sense of direction. When researchers at the University of Chicago bought and released monarch butterflies from a commercial breeder ...

To improve the next generation of insect-size flying machines, Johns Hopkins engineers have been aiming high-speed video cameras at some of the prettiest bugs on the planet. By figuring out how ...

Thanks to the engineers at Australia’s National University (ANU), the idea of flying butterflies powering the future was brought to the fore. Based on the wings of the Blue Morpho Didius butterfly, ...

Scientists have long wondered how butterflies fly – compared with other flying animals, the creatures have unusually short, broad and large wings relative to their body size. Now, experts have found ...