NEW YORK — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is encouraging wildlife enthusiasts to help Monarch butterflies on their yearly flight south to warmer climates. In New York, ...

Painted lady butterflies are flying more than 2,600 miles over the Atlantic Ocean without stopping, one of the longest recorded journeys ever taken by a flying insect. These are painted lady ...

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 ...

Trillions of insects embark, largely unnoticed, on epic journeys every year across mountain ranges, deserts and seas, and it is only now, as their numbers suffer huge declines, that scientists are tra ...

With a deft move of his net, 12-year-old Bear Graf, of Middle Island, captured an energetic male monarch butterfly, distinguishable by the two dark marks on his hind wings. He delivered him to the ...

How long do monarch butterflies live? Learn about monarch butterfly generations and their lifespan while migrating across North America and how you can help protect their journey When most people ...

A census shows more butterflies in the U.K. this year, but scientists warn that the long-term decline continues.

Butterflies are traveling across the Atlantic from West Africa. It's one of the longest insect journeys ever recorded. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: These are painted lady butterflies. Gerard Talavera came ...