Researchers find that the white spots on the wings of monarch butterflies may help them fly farther. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on June 21, 2023.) Monarch butterflies have distinctive ...

As the summer sun begins to resign and the first traces of fall appear in the Ozark air, Walter Turnbow Park in Springdale will once again come alive with the flutter of orange and black wings. The ...

The wings of monarchs that survive a 2,000-mile-long migration tend to be spottier, suggesting that feature may aid the insects’ ability to fly. By Kate Golembiewski Every fall, monarch butterflies ...

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When a wounded monarch butterfly arrived at a Long Island wildlife center this summer, its chances of survival looked grim. One of its paper-thin orange wings had torn clean off, grounding the tiny ...

As California’s visiting monarch butterfly populations dwindle, will they lose their strikingly large wings? In an article in the November edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

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 ...

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Monarch butterflies with more white spots on their mostly orange-and-black wings are more successful at long-distance migration. Some scientists... Monarch butterflies' white spots may help them fly ...