The monarch butterfly migration from the United States to Mexico is one of the great wonders of the ... I think the markings appear almost like the stained-glass windows found in an old ...

After years of decline, the numbers of Monarch butterflies are up. NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro speaks with Jorge Rickards of the World Wildlife Fund in Mexico about their promising rebound.

Monarch butterflies cluster on a blue gum eucalyptus, ... Leong pointed out that the sunlight shining through their patterned, orange-gold wings made them glow like stained glass in a cathedral.

The results, published online Wednesday in the journal Nature, appear to upend long-held assumptions about the monarch, including how it generates a color pattern evocative of a stained-glass sunrise.

The monarch butterflies that come each year to California are, in a word, spellbinding. ... revealing its miniature stained-glass-window wings that make the species so beloved. ...

When the chill of winter comes, Monarch butterflies with their fragile stained glass-patterned wings travel up to 3,000 miles from the continental United States to their favorite spots to ...

Butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, ants, praying mantises and insects of all kinds have taken over Leu Gardens, and they’re bigger than most visitors might expect. But rather than minuscule ...

Every year, millions of monarch butterflies migrate to the same remote stretch of forest in central Mexico. Now the migration — and the species — is under threat from climate change.

The migration of millions of monarch butterflies in North America is one of the most compelling wonders of nature, ... with their stained-glass wings of black and orange. ...

Looking like small, flying black, orange and yellow stained-glass windows, monarch butterflies are prized for their beauty, and as a symbol of biodiversity and the need to protect ecosystems. Due to a ...