Think of a monarch butterfly, and a distinctive image pops up: black-and-orange wings, with a sprinkling of white spots around the black edges. Those white spots may actually help monarchs ...

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The outlook for butterflies in the U.S. appears as fragile as their delicate wings ... species like the Monarch butterfly to even some pest species like the Cabbage White butterfly that’s ...

The complete disruption of mir-193 eliminated black and dark wing colors in the African squinting bush brown butterfly, Bicyclus anynana, the Indian cabbage white butterfly, Pieris canidia ...

The white spots on the edges of a monarch butterfly's wings might give it an advantage while migrating, according to new research. Sanka Vidanagama / NurPhoto via Getty Images For a migrating ...