The number of monarch butterflies spending winter in the western U.S. dropped dramatically this year, despite moves to extend ...

Painted lady butterflies are world travelers. The ones we encounter in Europe fly from Africa to Sweden, ultimately returning ...

14, 2020.Get Photo Monarch butterflies roost as the sun begins to set at The Nature Conservancy's South Cape May Meadows Preserve in Lower Township, N.J., Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020.Get Photo A ...

The main basis for the proposal to list monarchs as threatened is that researchers are seeing fewer of the butterflies each year at their overwintering sites. There’s little debate that the monarch’s ...

Monarch butterflies are important culturally and ecologically across North America. Generations have watched in wonder as yellow-and-black striped caterpillars fold into green-and-gold chrysalises and ...

Monarch butterflies have declined 80 percent or more in recent decades Each year, eastern monarchs embark on a migration spanning thousands of miles and multiple generations to overwintering ...

“It’s scary because you don’t want to lose that phenomenon.” Western monarch butterflies migrate from Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah and inland California to coastal ...

Monarch butterflies migrate from overwintering locations, the largest of which is in Mexico, to more temperate regions that can be thousands of miles from the overwintering areas. Depending on the ...

(AP) — U.S. wildlife officials announced a decision Tuesday to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies ... the peak of the migration season when most butterflies are present ...

the migration of the monarch butterfly. The two will lead an effort to restore winter grounds for the butterflies in Mexico’s Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in a newly funded project, they ...