Texas' weather this year may offer a clue. After a relatively mild summer, September and October have brought persistent ...

Why Do Monarch Butterflies Swarm? Monarch butterflies, like other butterfly species and birds, must migrate to warmer climates during the cold winter months. Monarch butterflies are unique because ...

Watch as fluttering swarms of monarch butterflies return to the warm weather of Mexico in their annual journey, how the cold and snowy weather is affecting countries around the world, and more of ...

A meadow filled with blooming cosmo flowers has provided a natural attraction for butterflies aplenty this month. HUMBOLDT — Joshua Works has served up a natural palette for throngs of sight-seers to ...

A monarch butterfly was fluttering inside a large net while Larry Hoffman tried to gently grab hold of its wings. Hoffman, 77, grabbed the butterfly’s body, turned it over in his hands and placed a ...

Monarch butterflies undergo a complete metamorphosis, or a four-part life cycle. Life begins as a tiny egg, which soon hatches an elfin larva, or caterpillar. The caterpillar does much of the heavy ...

The California State Parks Foundation is asking Californians to track sightings of western monarch butterflies to help save the dwindling insect population. The California State Parks Foundation, a ...

This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Anderson Cooper reports on the migration of the monarch butterflies, an annual spring spectacle during which millions of butterflies begin their trek north from ...

Monarch butterflies have a unique multigenerational migration pattern, leading to behaviors not seen in other butterfly species. This means they exhibit some amazing behaviors that are not seen in ...

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 ...

The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in California this winter, a foreboding sign for the future of the beloved ...