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'Discovering' Mexico's Monarch Butterfly Migration

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Painted lady butterflies pause to feed on the nectar of California's superbloom near Thousand Palms.
insects

An Amazing Butterfly Irruption Is Swarming Across California

Painted ladies are taking the skies by storm.
Evan Nicole Brown March 14, 2019
Millions of monarchs descend on the El Rosario butterfly preserve each year.
science

The Tiny Sticker That Traveled More Than a Thousand Miles on the Wing of a Butterfly

Tracking these insects takes a little adhesive and a lot of luck.
Jessica Leigh Hester March 7, 2019
A winter monarch cluster roosting in a eucalyptus tree at Pismo Beach.
Pismo Beach, California

Monarch Butterfly Grove

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.
One of many beautiful dioramas.
Pokhara, Nepal

Annapurna Natural History Museum Butterfly Collection

Feast your eyes upon hundreds of Nepal's native butterflies and moths.
Miami blue butterflies are one of the rarest insects in the world.
butterflies

The Tiny Florida Butterfly That Refuses to Become Extinct

Miami blues have returned from the dead. Twice.
Karuna Eberl December 12, 2018
Catasticta sibyllae, named for Maria Sibylla Merian, is known from only two specimens.
natural history

A Rare and Striking Butterfly Is Named for a Pioneering Female Naturalist

Maria Sibylla Merian watched these beautiful insects more closely than anyone else of her time.
Sarah Laskow December 6, 2018
Vienna, Austria

Palmenhaus

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.
A butterfly tagged with a Monarch Watch ID in Washington, DC, in 2012.
insects

Tag, You're an Insect

Tracking small creatures is frustrating, delicate, fascinating work.
Jessica Leigh Hester October 5, 2018
Pacific Grove, California

Pacific Grove Butterfly House

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.
Brooklyn Taxidermy.
Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn Taxidermy

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.
Last summer, a white-letter hairstreak was spotted in Scotland for the first time since 1884.
butterflies

Found: Eggs From a Butterfly Last Seen in Scotland 130 Years Ago

The white-letter hairstreak has been creeping north with warming temperatures.
Vittoria Traverso February 15, 2018
A solo painted lady.
butterflies

The Charming Culprits Behind Denver's Mysterious Radar Blob

It turned out to be a whole lot of painted ladies.
Cara Giaimo October 5, 2017
A white-letter hairstreak.
insects

A Butterfly Reappears in Scotland After 133 Years Away

Climate change might have helped bring the white-letter hairstreak back north.
Erik Shilling August 15, 2017
Male (top) and female (bottom) sunburst cerulean-satyr butterflies are finally considered one species.
science

DNA Barcoding Shows That Two Butterfly Species Are One and the Same

They're an extreme case of sexual dimorphism.
Kelsey Kennedy July 28, 2017
butterflies

This California Man Has Dedicated His Backyard to Saving a Butterfly

Biologist Tim Wong has been successfully raising California pipevine swallowtails for years.
Cara Giaimo May 12, 2017
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park

Hang out with thousands of butterflies in one of the world's largest such enclosures.
butterflies

Mexico Just Shut Down a Lot of Sawmills in its Massive Monarch Butterfly Reserve

It's also a United Nations World Heritage Site.
Erik Shilling September 21, 2016