The tiny traveler underwent a wild new surgery to receive a replacement wing from a similarly sized dead butterfly at Sweetbriar Nature Center, footage shows.
The monarch butterfly, known for its bright orange patterned wings, is in the middle of its migration from the northern U.S.
An injured monarch butterfly is flying again thanks to an unusual procedure at a Long Island preserve that has captured the hearts of millions.Rescuers at Smithtown’s Sweetbriar Nature Center used the ...
An injured Monarch butterfly flies again after a delicate wing transplant. Watch the rescue video that’s touching hearts ...
Anurag Agrawal, an ecology and evolutionary biology professor at Cornell University, gave a talk about monarch butterflies and the ecological disasters that they highlight in the University of ...
A Long Island nature center gave a monarch butterfly a new wing, allowing it to continue its migration this winter.
In New York, veterinarians at the Sweetbriar Nature Center helped a monarch butterfly live on by performing a wing transplant ...
I have been wondering if it would have been more likely to be struck by lightning,” said the biologist who spotted the rare ...
Using a wing from a deceased butterfly, we carefully matched it to the broken wing and performed a delicate repair. 'The result? You’d never know this monarch is flying with a replacement wing.
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Monarch butterfly wing transplant.

A New York wildlife team performed a delicate wing transplant on an injured monarch butterfly, helping it fly again and ...
Organizers hope these gardens, five of which now exist in Houston, will help restore critical habitats for one of nature’s ...
Monarch butterflies are migrating through Oklahoma on their way to Mexico, with the Oklahoma City Zoo using new technology to ...