- All right, so I brought along some monarch butterflies with me. And tagging only happens on the southern migration. In this area, like we talked about, mid-September into the beginning of October.

Monarch butterfly numbers are down by 80% overall and remain just one-third the size needed to avoid migratory collapse.

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — Monarch butterflies are at risk of becoming an endangered species. Right now, volunteers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are helping with ...

Brad Burden, research and monitoring coordinator for the Adaptive and Integrative Management Team, displays the alpha-numeric code of the Monarch Watch tag on a monarch butterfly Oct. 19, 2024, at ...

A monarch butterfly with a tag on its wing perches on a flower head at Monarch Watch's butterfly tagging event at the Baker Wetlands on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024.

What sounded like leaves rustling in the wind was the flickering wings of thousands of monarch butterflies as they flitted ...

Before National Geographic published its famous August 1976 cover story detailing the search for the monarch butterfly’s wintering grounds, nobody knew where these strikingly beautiful creatures ...

FARGO – The Fargo Park District, with other partners, is holding its second annual monarch butterfly tagging event on Wednesday, Aug. 21. According to a press release from the Fargo Park ...

Tittl said, "We have a state cocktail, we have state flowers, we can have a state butterfly, and I think the monarch is ...

SPOKANE (Spokesman-Review) — After rapid population decline in recent decades, the monarch butterfly could soon have federal protections under the Endangered Species Act. With its orange and ...

Butterflies are not only beautiful but they’re also an important part of our ecosystem. The monarch butterfly migrates to Wisconsin every year, making them vital to our state’s environment.

Legislation is introduced in both the state assembly and state senate to make the Monarch Wisconsin’s state butterfly. The bills were announced at Butterfly Gardens in Appleton, which was founded as a ...