It’s always a thrill when a beautiful orange butterfly flutters through your ... edges of the wings to tell if you’re seeing a monarch. Male monarchs have two black dots on their hindwings.

Monarch butterflies are ... much more slowly than the average butterfly, who flaps about 20 times a second. In the right conditions, a migrating monarch can travel more than 100 miles in a single day, ...

The monarch butterfly life cycle begins with a whirl of wings in the heat of the summer sun. As a female monarch sips nectar from a wildflower, a male hovers nearby. A pheromone is released from ...

Before National Geographic published its famous August 1976 cover story detailing the search for the monarch butterfly’s wintering ... OE infection rates as high as 100% have been observed ...