The hotter conditions produced more potent toxins in the milkweed. But the researchers said that surprisingly, the parasitic ...

Climate warming can impact plant quality, which in turn shapes the nutrition and immune defense of insect herbivores like ...

An injured butterfly can now fly after a wing transplant from a dead insect. The monarch butterfly was brought to Sweetbriar ...

Higher temperatures may make monarch butterflies more vulnerable to parasites, according to new research from the University ...

In this video I share one of my favorite pieces, a bright monarch butterfly created from hundreds of tiny sculpted details on ...

The flapping wings of millions of monarch butterflies at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Michoacán, Mexico, create a fluttering sound that Alfonso Alonso describes as “magical.” The ...

The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading the way. The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals.

Monarch butterflies are in decline largely because of habitat degradation, including in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in the forested mountains of Central Mexico. Researchers looked at ...

For the first time, scientists are tracking the migration of monarch butterflies across much of North America, actively monitoring individual insects on journeys from as far away as Ontario all the ...

Scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys that take thousands of miles to their winter colonies in Mexico. Scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys ...

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