KXAN viewers submitted photos and videos showing the butterflies taking over their backyards and gardens as they make their ...

“The wing was in perfect shape," said Janine Bendicksen, director of wildlife rehabilitation at the Sweetbriar Nature Center in Smithtown, N.Y. New York City veterinarians performed a wing transplant ...

NEW YORK — A Long Island nature center used a dead butterfly's wing to help another butterfly continue its life and migration. The Monarch butterfly in question was brought in by a Good Samaritan with ...

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

A monarch butterfly has a new lease on life after he received the first butterfly wing transplant at a wildlife rehabilitation center in southern New York. Attempted carjacking of a soccer coach goes ...

A broken wing almost ended a monarch butterfly's journey on Long Island, but a caring hand and a clever idea gave it a second chance to fly again. At the Sweetbriar Nature Center in Smithtown, experts ...

A 12-year-old girl is helping monarch butterflies by raising them and planting a specialized garden. Monarch butterflies were listed as threatened in 2024 due to habitat loss and pesticide use.

When 12-year-old Kaylee Timm released her pointer finger and thumb, the newly tagged monarch caught a breeze and fluttered directly south. Timm’s smile widened, revealing braces adorned with orange, ...

As countless monarch butterflies make their way through Illinois toward their wintertime destination in Mexico, some became the center of attention in Palos Heights last weekend during its annual ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The monarch butterfly's long journey from Chicago to Central Mexico has begun. The monarchs' send off has become an annual celebration for El Valor, a non-profit early childhood ...

A monarch butterfly enjoys the flowers at the Tom Ridge and Julian Wetlands in this file photo. Abby Drey [email protected] Cooler temperatures and shorter days; goldenrods and asters blooming by ...