Butterfly lovers, rejoice. The 23rd annual Flying Colors Butterfly Festival is returning to the Chattahoochee Nature Center on Saturday, June 4, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Sunday, June 5, from noon to ...

A monarch butterfly with a ripped-off wing was miraculously able to fly again thanks to a first-of-its kind wing transplant at a nature preserve on Long Island. This surgery was a total metamorphosis!

“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 ...