Following a bad year for butterflies in 2024, it’s more important than ever to take part in this year’s Big Butterfly Count.

In 1961, MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz was inputting numbers into a weather prediction program. His model was based on a dozen variables, the value of one being .506127. When he ran the model ...

Butterflies are common throughout the world; however, there is more to them than meets the eye. From optical illusions in ...

Butterfly researcher Joe Billings, who tagged the butterfly caught by Peck, has placed numbered stickers on the wings of roughly 6,000 monarchs since 2014. Courtesy of Joe Billings Facebook ...

Monarch butterfly numbers in Pacific Grove have drastically decreased this season, causing concern among scientists and conservationists. The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History reports low ...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — The number of monarch butterflies wintering in the mountains west of Mexico City rebounded this year, doubling the area they covered in 2024 despite the stresses of climate ...

University of Oxford researchers have led a new study which found that hedgerows, small copses and even individual trees can ...

The “super generation” of butterflies that migrate to Mexico had a very bad winter in 2023-24, the second worst on record.

The highest number recorded was 1.2 million in 1997. The organization announced in February that it counted just 9,119 monarchs in 2024, a decrease of 96% from 233,394 in 2023. The total was the ...

The highest number recorded was 1.2 million in 1997. The organization announced in February that it counted just 9,119 monarchs in 2024, a decrease of 96% from 233,394 in 2023. The total was the ...

The highest number recorded was 1.2 million in 1997. The organization announced in February that it counted just 9,119 monarchs in 2024, a decrease of 96% from 233,394 in 2023. The total was the ...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — The number of monarch butterflies wintering in the mountains west of Mexico City rebounded this year, doubling the area they covered in 2024 despite the stresses of climate ...