Creating a haven for monarch butterflies in your backyard is more than just a joy for the eyes—it’s a crucial way to support ...

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

By Jeff Gaffney Every fall and winter, one of the most delicate, iconic, endangered visitors, the western Monarch butterfly, ...

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.

The Western Monarch Count has reported a peak population of just 9,119 butterflies this winter, down from approximately 200,000 overwintering butterflies counted each year over the past three years.

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 ...

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) ...

Soon enough, the monarch flitted over to a common milkweed patch I had been nurturing through several dry spells. Carefully, I worked to get a little closer, concerned that the thousands of lenses ...

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 ...

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.