A monarch butterfly at the Coastal Access Monarch Butterfly Preserve in Los Osos, Calif., on Jan. 20. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined ...

The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is an emblematic species renowned for its long‐distance migration and distinctive orange warning colouration. Research in conservation and ecology has ...

The annual migration south for monarch butterflies peaks in late September. Here's how to watch for the regal butterfly.

The City of Chamblee has been named “Monarch Champion” by the National Wildlife Federation’s Mayors’ Monarch Pledge program, ...

More monarch butterfly habitat may be added alongside crops in Iowa and across the nation, thanks to a yearslong Iowa State University research project. North American monarch populations have ...

AMES, Iowa — Enhancing the monarch butterfly’s habitat in rural and urban Iowa is the goal of a new, broad-based statewide effort. The Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium, established through the ...

More than a dozen volunteers planted 850 milkweeds throughout the Spring Ridge Wildlife Sanctuary on Monday as part of a budding monarch butterfly habitat conservation project. Through a grant from ...

Nearly 90 percent of the monarch butterflies in the Western U.S. spend their winters along the California coastline and the majority of them come here to the Central Coast. Conservationists hope ...

Providing habitat for monarchs is the biggest way to support monarch butterfly populations, said Emilie Snell-Rood, a University of Minnesota professor who studies them. A monarch butterfly glides in ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list the Monarch butterfly as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, citing loss of habitat to development, logging and use of herbicides. Since the ...

The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in California this winter, a foreboding sign for the future of the beloved ...

ESCANABA, MI – This monarch butterfly hotspot could attract even more pollinators in the future. A long-term pollinator habitat restoration project is underway at Peninsula Point, the southern tip of ...