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

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 ...

Mr. Foglia spent three years following the longest butterfly migration across international borders. April 10, 2025 At this moment, hundreds of thousands of Painted Lady butterflies are fluttering ...

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 ...

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