On a beach in French Guiana, thousands of miles from their natural habitats, a flock of painted lady butterflies ... were close relatives of populations in Europe and Africa. Sign up for Chip ...

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

Each year, painted lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui ... links an organism’s isotopic composition to the environment where it developed. Since a butterfly’s wings retain the isotopic signature of the ...

The findings challenge previous assumptions about butterfly migration and highlight the role of phenotypic plasticity.

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. But what determines whether some ...

the painted lady species completes an impressive 9,000 mile journey from tropical Africa to the Arctic Circle. One butterfly alone could not manage the journey, so it is completed in stages, with up ...

While some end up ... painted lady? Is this phenomenon unique to butterflies, or could it be observed in other insects as well? ISTA researcher Daria Shipilina and her colleagues are determined to ...