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 ...

Butterflies are fragile and vulnerable to predation by all kinds of critters, from birds and reptiles to spiders and other ...

going through photographs of 400 monarch butterflies and measuring the amount of black and white on the edges of their wings. “I had to keep giving her encouragement because it sounded so stupid ...

Monarch butterflies with larger white spots on their wings are more successful at migrating long distances. It is unclear how these spots help the butterflies, but it is possible they create ...

The butterfly population in the U.S. has dropped more than 20% over the past two decades. Some species living in Connecticut ...

The complete disruption of mir-193 eliminated black and dark wing colors in the African squinting bush brown butterfly, Bicyclus anynana, the Indian cabbage white butterfly, Pieris canidia, and ...

Monarch butterflies have distinctive orange-and-black wings with small white spots. And it's those spots that recently caught the attention of a group of scientists. As NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce ...

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 ...

The white spots on the edges of a monarch butterfly's wings might give it an advantage while migrating, according to new research. Sanka Vidanagama / NurPhoto via Getty Images For a migrating ...