The monarch butterfly is a beautiful and colorful creature, but it takes time to reach this stage of its adult life.

FILE – Monarch butterflies from Canada stop to rest in Wendy Park on their way to Mexico, Sept. 12, 2023, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File) ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reopened the public comment period for a proposed rule to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The proposed ...

Image: Art Page submission from Carol Moyer, “ Monarch Butterfly Sideways with Closed Wings. “ (Beyond Pesticides, December 20, 2024) On December 12, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) opened a ...

The annual butterfly count in Olmsted County last weekend showed numbers are down in this area, as is the case across much of North America, but more than two dozen species were spotted.

The data that Mission Monarch gains is used to identify where the higher densities of the species are, especially prime breeding areas, so that people can restore their habitats.

CONTEPEC, Mexico, Feb. 18, 2009 -- When the sun comes out in the mountains of central Mexico, hundreds of millions of tiny, orange monarch butterflies fill the skies.

Butterflies released as part of Rathdrum's Monarch City program Since joining the Monarch City USA project in 2019, Rathdrum has been working to help recover the monarch butterfly population.