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

Walton blames the use of herbicides and pesticides for the decline in the monarch butterflies. If cattle eat milkweed, it can ...

In the monarch's case, the proposed listing would generally prohibit anyone from killing or transporting the butterfly. People and farmers could continue to remove milkweed, a key food source for ...

If no action is taken to protect the monarch butterfly, which is known for its orange wings and black markings, the eastern monarchs face as much as a 74% percent probability of extinction by 2080 ...

Monarch Butterfly Migration Is Magical and Endangered. 3w. ... monarchs and the risks they face have far-reaching ...

Zach: In 1997, Homero attended the north american conference on the monarch butterfly nearby in Morelia. it was the hottest ticket in town… if you’re into that sort of thing.

Pismo Beach’s butterfly count matches migration data from the rest of the West Coast. Only 9,119 butterflies were counted at West Coast overwintering sites during the 28th annual Western Monarch ...

Already in 2022, the International Union for Conservation of Nature categorized the migratory monarch butterfly, specific to North America, as endangered due to climate change and habitat loss. In ...

FILE - A monarch butterfly sits on a milkweed flower in North Miami Beach, Florida, Sept. 14, 2016. Heat may have doomed western monarchs. Monarchs across the continent face mounting threats, ...

A monarch butterfly suns itself on a eucalyptus branch in the Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove on Dec. 9, 2022. More than 129,000 western monarch butterflies were counted in San Luis Obispo ...

There’s little debate that the monarch’s epic yearly migration is in trouble. Analyses of fall-migrating monarchs collected through the Journey North program, in which citizen scientists report the ...

“The fact that a butterfly as widespread and beloved as the monarch is now the face of the extinction crisis is a … distress signal warning us to take better care of the environment that we ...