FARGO — Families had a chance to learn about monarch butterflies on Wednesday night, Aug. 20, as they began their migration. Urban Plains Park hosted a monarch butterfly tagging event Wednesday.

For the first time in California, citizen scientists can join the effort to track monarch butterflies thanks to Blu+, a new ...

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas — Tall spikes of deep purple liatris blooms sway in the breeze of a training area. Among the flowers, volunteers clad in bright safety vests are scattered, their eyes sharp and ...

A monarch butterfly was fluttering inside a large net while Larry Hoffman tried to gently grab hold of its wings. Hoffman, 77, grabbed the butterfly’s body, turned it over in his hands and placed a ...

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — Monarch butterflies are at risk of becoming an endangered species. Right now, volunteers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are helping with conservation ...

A monarch butterfly carrying a tiny tag developed by Cellular Tracking Technologies at the Cape May Point Arts and Science Center in Cape May Point, N.J., Nov. 12, 2025. Scientists used tiny new ...

GRAPEVINE, Texas (Reuters) - It is a delicate process but for Gayle Hall it is a labor of love: tagging monarch butterflies as part of a program to monitor the movements of one of nature's most ...

Scientists are putting backpacks on butterflies at Ellwood Mesa. These “backpacks” are brand new, solar-powered radio tags that weigh about as much as a few grains of rice. For the first time ever, ...

California’s monarch butterflies get a new gadget. New tech is allowing researchers to monitor California’s monarch ...

The Monarch Monitoring Project of New Jersey Audubon’s Cape May Bird Observatory on Sunday started its 30th year of counting and tagging migrating monarch butterflies, which have slowly been building ...

Biologists have attached tiny, solar transmitters to the monarch butterflies, allowing researchers and everyday visitors to ...