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 ...

Butterflies are among the most beautiful creatures on this planet. They enthrall people with their delicacy, innocence, and ...

Because butterflies begin their lives as earthly creatures and eventually grow wings to fly away, butterflies are often ...

They're surprisingly fuzzy. Each wing looks like a mini-masterpiece of stained-glass art, in orange, black, and white.

The butterfly, named Metron mentor as an anagram for the genus and species, has a fuzzy brown body with white, uneven splotches across its wings. Thousands of new species are found each year.

Researchers find that the white spots on the wings of monarch ... They're planning to use a mechanism that will flap real butterfly wings in a testing chamber that tracks the movement of air.

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 ...