In 2023, more than 16,000 butterflies were counted at one local grove. The most recent count was a tiny fraction of that.

On Tuesday, the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster and the Government of Mexico are joining forces to protect one of North ...

Each year, millions of monarch butterflies travel thousands of miles across North America to escape the cold and find ...

Thogmartin and other researchers have evaluated more than 200 scenarios for restoring greater than 1.3 billion stems of ...

What is the status of the monarch butterfly in the U.S. and is it listed as threatened or endangered? -- M. Smith, Raleigh, ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking steps to list monarch butterflies as threatened species and designate seven ...

The main basis for the proposal to list monarchs as threatened is that researchers are seeing fewer of the butterflies each year at their overwintering sites. There’s little debate that the monarch’s ...

This year’s featured book is “Flight Behavior,” Barbara Kingsolver’s 2012 novel that explores themes of climate change and ...

The precarious status of the monarch is most directly assessed in Mexico, where each winter the eastern ... and means there are fewer butterflies attempting the fall migration to Mexico.

The monarch butterfly is much beloved ... where they hibernate to survive. After winter, they migrate north, laying eggs and building their population before the cycle repeats, said Tad Yankoski ...