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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Monarch butterflies are making a pit stop at Botanica as they migrate from Canada to Mexico for the ...

The Western monarch population has plunged more than 95% since the 1980s, and has a more than 99% chance of extinction by 2080. Western monarchs primarily spend winters along the California coast.

Monarch butterflies are migrating through Oklahoma on their way to Mexico, with the Oklahoma City Zoo using new technology to ...

It’s a sunny July afternoon, and Grayslake neighbors Annie Lawson and Heather Bauer are standing at the side of Lawson’s home, carefully going through her garden of milkweed plants. Lawson points at ...

A volunteer gives instructions on how to properly hold a monarch butterfly at the Baker Wetlands on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025.

MADISON, Wis. — U.S. wildlife officials announced a decision Tuesday to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies after years of warnings from environmentalists that populations are shrinking ...

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, vice ...

Organizers hope these gardens, five of which now exist in Houston, will help restore critical habitats for one of nature’s ...

Over the past few weeks, Iola has served as host to hundreds — or maybe thousands? — of visitors passing through town.

Arkansas is a great place to spot monarch butterflies as it falls directly in their migration path! While monarch butterflies travel through Arkansas in both the spring (late March to April) and the ...