Insect migration is a fascinating and complex phenomenon that plays a crucial role in various ecosystems. Each year, billions of insects undertake long-distance migrations, often in search of ...

Painted lady butterflies are world travelers. The ones we encounter in Europe fly from Africa to Sweden, ultimately returning to areas north and south of the Sahara.

A study on painted lady butterflies reveals that their migration patterns are shaped by environmental cues rather than ...

Migrating animals are found in all major branches of the animal kingdom. They include taxa as diverse as fish, crustaceans, amphibians, reptiles, insects, mammals and slime moulds (Bowlin et al.

A broadly distributed migratory butterfly travels varying distances, influenced by environmental conditions rather than following genetically coded instructions, according to a study. The ...

People in northern climates are familiar with flocks of birds flying south in the winter, but why do they do it, and why ...

In 2023, more than 16,000 butterflies were counted at one local grove. The most recent count was a tiny fraction of that.

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States dropped dramatically this year even as ...

The scale is shocking: by biomass, insects outweigh the birds migrating over Britain every year eight times over. While so many eye-catching insects, from dragonflies to butterflies, migrate, it is ...

Widely distributed in North America, the migratory grasshopper, Melanoplus sanguinipes (Fabricius), lives in a multitude of habitats. It is a common inhabitant of grasslands and meadows. Host plants ...

The global bird movement is being highlighted as part of World Migratory Bird Day. Getty Wetlands are the natural habitat for a great variety of birds, animals and insects The birds return in the ...