Butterflies Content

Student Entomologists Gain Hands-On Skills in Insect Biology

Jocelyn C Anderson — May 28, 2024 - 9:00am

Discover how student researchers are gaining hands-on biology and entomology skills and protecting pollinators through the Insect Scholars Program.

Three-Year Study Gives Insight into Monarchs and Milkweed

Andy Fell — August 04, 2022 - 10:43am

A three-year study of wild monarch butterflies and milkweed in rural Davis has yielded key insights into factors that constrain monarch development.

Wildfires Destroy Important Butterfly Habitats

Cody Kitaura — October 15, 2020 - 3:30pm

People ask me all the time where butterflies go when it rains. Now they're asking me where they go when it burns.

In a word, to the Elysian Fields. They have nowhere else to go!

Monarchs’ Wings Yield Clues to Their Birthplaces

Patricia Bailey — January 26, 2016 - 9:49am

A newly published study of California’s overwintering monarch butterflies confirmed many previous migratory studies. But the findings also showed some unexpected and surprising patterns of movement, reports a research team led by the University of California, Davis.

The study, published in the early online version of the print journal Ecography, examined the natal origins, or “birthplaces,” of butterflies at four California overwintering sites.