It’s hard to overlook the brilliant orange and black wings of a monarch butterfly as it moves through a garden of flowers. It ...

Monarch butterflies are the iconic butterfly. It's impossible not to picture their vibrant orange and black wings fluttering through gardens or meadows when someone mentions them by name. These ...

It’s Pollinator Week! A time to celebrate, bring awareness to, and enjoy the incredible variety of creatures that perform the ...

Monarch butterflies with more white spots on their mostly orange-and-black wings are more successful at long-distance migration. Some scientists think the spots may affect airflow around their wings.

The butterfly landed, and opened its wings flat so I could get a great photo of what I call the “top” of the wings. The butterfly then moved around the flower, fluttering its wings and exposing ...

The black swallowtail deserves to be chosen as state butterfly because it is “a full-time Michigan resident,” Meyer said— it’s the only species that can be found year-round and throughout ...

With her wings outstretched and bright iconic colors or orange and purple and black, Mona the Monarch flits about the Butterfly House — smiling, dancing, and greeting visitors.

The popular concept has been depicted in everything from film to social media testimonials, but the real science behind the ...

A postman butterfly, with its orange-striped wings, hovered nearby. On another leaf, an emerald peacock swallowtail fanned out its emerald green wings with shimmering turquoise stripes.

A state butterfly may be on the cards for Michigan. A house bill was proposed on Thursday, March 27 that would designate the black swallowtail butterfly as the official state butterfly. House Bill ...

A new bill has been introduced in the Michigan House that would designate the State of Michigan to have a state butterfly. House Bill 4159, introduced by several representatives, would designate ...