He and some other scientists were collecting painted lady butterflies across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa to map how their long migration unfolds across the continents. At first, Foglia’s plan ...

The species even once made a 4,200-kilometre transatlantic journey across the ocean from West Africa to French Guiana in South America, likely blown off course by wind currents to one of the few ...

Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back, the world's longest butterfly migration. In Constant Bloom ...

Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back, the world's longest butterfly migration. In Constant Bloom ...

The last leg of the longest butterfly migration has now been identified. The insects have breeding grounds across central Africa's savannas and highlands ...

The Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) undertakes the longest known butterfly migration — an annual, multigenerational journey between Europe and tropical Africa.