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

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its ...

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

This winter, volunteers from the Xerces Society, a nonprofit environmental group, tallied just 9,119 western monarchs — a ...

Generations have watched in wonder as yellow-and-black striped caterpillars fold into green-and-gold chrysalises and emerge as large orange-and-black butterflies. Monarch's multigenerational migration ...

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 ...

A monarch butterfly feeds at Cape May Point State Park in Lower Township, N.J., Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020.Get Photo Monarch butterflies roost as the sun begins to set at The Nature Conservancy's ...

Thogmartin and other researchers have evaluated more than 200 scenarios for restoring greater than 1.3 billion stems of ...

This grant is more than just an opportunity it’s a lifeline for the Monarch migration,” said Shiran Hershcovich, Lepidopterist Manager at Butterfly Pavilion. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...