The state of Georgia is home to over 160 species of butterfly, from the humble common buckeye (Junonia coenia) to the dramatically striped zebra swallowtail (Eurytides marcellus). Many rely on native ...

The 26th annual Flying Colors Butterfly Festival will bring up-close encounters with butterflies, entertainment and more fun to the Chattahoochee Nature Center on Saturday and Sunday. Guests will be ...

“Color in Motion” seems an appropriate name for the live butterfly exhibit that opened this week at Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory. In a 30-by-30-foot tent in the conservatory’s Showcase ...

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 ...

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 ...

The white spots on a monarch butterfly's wings may help it migrate, according to a new study. (Pat Davis) Think of a monarch butterfly, and a distinctive image pops up: black-and-orange wings, with a ...

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 ...