SAN DIEGO — U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing monarch butterflies as a threatened species and has considered some possibly contradictory ways to protect them, Nicholas Storer ...

Monarchs are among the most recognizable and best loved butterflies in North America, but you might have noticed fewer of ...

The results coincide with monarch butterflies being proposed for protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. It is the second lowest overwintering population recorded since tracking began in ...

SANTA CRUZ — Conservationists are concerned that western monarch butterflies may be teetering on the brink of collapse as the latest Western Monarch Count reveals a devastating decline.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its second-lowest mark in nearly three decades as pesticides, diminishing ...

SIOUX CITY — Monarch butterflies need a helping hand to flourish in the wild. A new traveling exhibit at the Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center offers insights into what gardeners can do to encourage ...

The Deschutes Land Trust wants to help fight to bring the monarch populations back. They are making packs of native milkweed you can plant in your backyard, creating a habitat for monarchs.

After bottoming out at 1,901 butterflies in 2020, the population rebounded to 247,246 insects the following year, an increase of nearly 13,000%. The year after that the survey recorded 335,479 ...

Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf have developed robotic wings inspired by the structure and flight dynamics of the monarch butterfly.

SAN DIEGO — Working to grow a safer future, Veronica Cuadras is planting native narrow leaf milkweed to help monarch butterflies. “All you need is just a little pot, some dirt and some seeds!” Cuadras ...