Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back ...

Painted ladies are the ultramarathoners of the butterfly world—even more so than monarchs. Scientists have long known about ...

The butterflies’ resilience shows that some species are capable of adapting to dramatic changes in climate, food availability ...

much remains unknown about the migration of painted ladies. Does the observed pattern apply to the broad geographic distribution of the painted lady? Is this phenomenon unique to butterflies, or ...

Thousands of painted lady butterflies are passing through Palo Alto and surrounding communities this month. The mass of butterflies, which can be spotted at a rate of one every 10 seconds or more ...

For many years, scientists had had difficulties studying migration in insects because of their size and experts’ inability to track their movement thanks to technological limitations. But a boom in ...