These summer monarchs live for only weeks ... The researchers also looked at white spots on closely related butterfly species that either don't migrate or only semi-migrate.

“Gardeners can plant certain plants which will attract white butterflies to lay their eggs there, including nasturtium, honesty and sweet rocket,” he says. “Nasturtiums flower later in ...

Slugs munch on seedlings. Aphids suck the juices from any number of plants. And that white butterfly you see fluttering around? It’s a cabbage white butterfly that lays eggs that turn into ...

Each year around mid-summer, somewhere between December and mid-January, the skies of South Africa's Gauteng province, including the city of Johannesburg, fill with small white butterflies.

It’s striped black and white, as the name suggests ... but a few wander far north every summer, reaching southern Canada. Swallowtails are large butterflies, so naturally their caterpillars ...

Idaho Fish and Game is looking for volunteers to survey milkweed patches and count monarch butterflies across the state this ...

Wodonga Landcare Project Officer and citizen scientist Karen Retra said the white butterflies with the black dots are cabbage white butterflies. Ms Retra said the introduced species played a vital ...

Summer is prime butterfly season. Butterflies are cold-blooded, meaning their body temperatures are the same as the surrounding air.