Lucas Foglia spent nearly four years traversing 17 countries, capturing images of painted lady butterflies, and the people and places that intersect with their epic migrations.

Learn what an American lady butterfly and caterpillar looks like. Plus, see how it compares to a painted lady butterfly.

Foglia couldn't help but compare the painted lady butterflies' experience of crossing borders to their human counterparts'. While butterflies "seemed to land on the shore and keep on flying," he ...

One butterfly alone could not manage the journey, so it is completed in stages, with up to six successive generations spending their lives flying north. The painted lady recently took the crown for ...

Foglia couldn't help but compare the painted lady butterflies' experience of crossing borders to their human counterparts'. While butterflies "seemed to land on the shore and keep on flying," he said, ...