F ew insects are as beloved as the monarch butterfly. These fascinating creatures are beautiful, boldly colored and surprisingly strong — the North American monarch migrating thousands of miles ...

From 2003 to 2019, amateur butterfly enthusiast Harlan Radcliff spent his lunch breaks observing butterflies on the grounds ...

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 ...

PERRYSBURG, Ohio — Learning in the field was definitely the goal for two northwest Ohio science teachers who went on a field ...

For the past three years, more than 200,000 western monarch butterflies spent their winters along the California coast — huddling together in tall tree groves, finding respite from the wind from ...

Every November, around the Day of the Dead, millions of monarch butterflies descend on a forest ... in the course of migration. The W.W.F. monitors the reserve’s forest cover each year, and ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON— The yearly count of monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico, released today, continues to show a dramatic decline in this imperiled species. Today’s count of 2.10 hectares (5.2 acres) ...

Some of the largest clusters this season were found in Santa Cruz County, with 1,406 monarchs at Lighthouse Field State Beach ...