Much of California’s Habitat for the migratory Monarch butterfly is gone. Wild fires have decimated groves of trees and plants where the Western Monarch winters. The typical flight plan of the Monarch ...

Evie Kinkead, a junior at Aptos High School, pitched this story about a project she spearheaded to help monarch butterfly ...

More than 500 people braved the cold with their monarch butterfly signs — symbols of immigration, freedom, and movement — to ...

Monarch butterflies in the western U.S. have dropped to just 9,119 this year. In 2023, the count was 233,394, meaning a 96% decline.

The count of 9,119 butterflies this winter is a sharp decline from 200,000 reported in the past three years, but slightly up from 2,000 monarch reported in 2020.

Not that long ago, monarch butterflies would migrate in droves. However, over the last few decades, the number of these ...

Just over 9,000 monarchs were counted in California last winter, the second lowest ever since the annual count began in 1997 ...

The findings challenge previous assumptions about butterfly migration and highlight the role of phenotypic plasticity.

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While scientists were able to save and move some creatures in the aftermath, researchers are worried about the prospects for ...

Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish ...

A pilot program established in 2021 to help pollinators in Utah has enjoyed success and is helping residents, communities and ...