It's been an unusually hot fall in Texas, and that may explain why the iconic southbound march of the monarch butterfly ...

Federal wildlife officials on Tuesday moved to add the monarch butterfly to its endangered species roster, citing decades of steep population decline of the striking black-and-orange insect. The U.S.

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

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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 ...

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 ...

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A broken wing almost ended a monarch butterfly's journey on Long Island, but a caring hand and a clever idea gave it a second chance to fly again. At the Sweetbriar Nature Center in Smithtown, experts ...

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

- I'm Natasha Hadden and I'm a wildlife biologist on the Ashley National Forest here in Vernal, Utah. So today we are catching monarchs and we will be placing tags on monarch butterflies. We hope that ...

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.