A monarch butterfly with a ripped-off wing was miraculously able to fly again thanks to a first-of-its kind wing transplant at a nature preserve on Long Island. This surgery was a total metamorphosis!

Every year, millions of Methuselah or super generation monarchs overwinter in the oyamel fir forests of Central Mexico after a 3,000-mile journey from Canada. Then in spring, they start the whole ...

SMITHTOWN, New York (WABC) -- A nature preserve in Nassau County performed a miraculous operation that gave an injured butterfly a second chance at life. Workers at the Sweetbriar Nature Center in ...

Scientists have long wondered how butterflies fly. Compared with other flying animals, the creatures have unusually short, broad and large wings relative to their body size. Now, experts have found ...

UPPER WEST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- The beautiful butterflies are back. The American Museum of Natural History's Butterfly Conservatory returns this weekend and marks a milestone. This is the 20th ...

Monarch butterfly numbers are flying higher, but they still have many miles to go. According to a pair of 2025-2026 reports from the World Wildlife Fund and partners, the population of eastern monarch ...

Butterflies are common throughout the world; however, there is more to them than meets the eye. From optical illusions in their wings to generation-spanning migrations and caterpillars committing ...

Trillions of insects embark, largely unnoticed, on epic journeys every year across mountain ranges, deserts and seas, and it is only now, as their numbers suffer huge declines, that scientists are tra ...

An injured butterfly can now fly after a wing transplant from a dead insect. The monarch butterfly was brought to Sweetbriar Nature Center in Long Island, New York, with its wing bent and torn, unable ...

A daring surgical procedure has given a doomed monarch butterfly a new lease of life. The delicate operation was captured on ...

Western monarch butterflies continue to migrate into San Luis Obispo County to stay the winter in groves of trees before venturing out to breed in the spring and summer. Thousands of the ...