The viceroy butterfly is a copycat. With its orange wings divided by black lines, it looks a lot like a monarch butterfly. Those thin black lines are important because that’s one way you can tell the ...

On a warm summer morning, you’re sitting in your yard enjoying a slow moment, when a flash of color catches your eye. Bright orange and black wings dance through the air before alighting on a purple ...

When creatures up the food chain consume a monarch, they suffer anything from diarrhea to cardiac arrest. In the animal ...

New York City veterinarians performed a wing transplant procedure on a monarch butterfly in a video that's since gone viral.

A friend and I were walking along a small brushy field the morning of Sunday, Sept. 29, when my friend pointed to a beautiful butterfly in a wild blackberry patch. Upon seeing it, I instinctively said ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on April 20, 2025. The original video can be viewed here. Earlier this year we reported on one of the most remarkable and mysterious migrations in ...