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 ...

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 ...

This has helped biologists to track their migration routes. Butterflies without such well-defined aggregations are more difficult to track, however. For example, painted lady butterflies often ...

What Does a Painted Lady Butterfly Look Like? A painted lady butterfly has an orange and black patterned upper wing with white dots and four or five black dots along each hindwing. Underwings have ...