An injured butterfly can now fly after a wing transplant from a dead insect. The monarch butterfly was brought to Sweetbriar ...

When a wounded monarch butterfly arrived at a Long Island wildlife center this summer, its chances of survival looked grim. One of its paper-thin orange wings had torn clean off, grounding the tiny ...

“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 ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A monarch butterfly with a broken wing was miraculously able to fly again after it underwent a wing transplant at a nature preserve. The Sweetbriar Nature Center in Long Island, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 complete ...