Wearing dark sunglasses, long sleeves and a wide-brimmed hat, Florida retiree Linda Cooper came prepared to gaze at ...

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.

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Two major flyways emerged: one through Central Texas from Wichita Falls to Del Rio and another along the Gulf Coast. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Professor Elizabeth Crone, Department of Evolution and Ecology, checks a non-native milkweed in the San Francisco Bay Area for monarch butterfly eggs and caterpillars. Known for long-distance ...

The Moon’s Cheshire-cat Smile Returns to the evening sky Tuesday evening, November 25. You’ll spot its very thin crescent ...

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 ...

The monarch butterfly is Illinois' state insect and has held that distinction for 50 years — having been suggested for the honor by third grade classes in Decatur in 1975. But the butterfly is also in ...

After flying some 3,000 miles from the northern U.S. and Canada to a remote forest in Central Mexico for the winter, tens of millions of monarch butterflies are making their way back north. These are ...