Scientists from the University of Ottawa, Uppsala University, the Institut Botànic de Barcelona, and other institutions have tracked the migratory feats of the painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui).

“Can the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil cause a tornado in Texas?” wondered mathematician Edward Lorenz, one of the fathers of chaos theory. Our world is deeply interconnected, and every ...

In a world first, scientists have discovered that painted lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui) have used favorable winds and a strategy of active flying and autopilot to fly across the world without ...

The painted lady butterfly Roger Vila The painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) is renowned for its long migration path, travelling thousands of kilometres between Europe and Africa. While the ...

Coinciding with the ever-popular super blooms across Southern California, the painted lady butterfly is migrating north from the U.S.-Mexico border en masse. Monterey County has seen large swaths of ...

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