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.

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 ...

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 ...

An international collaboration to track individual monarchs kicked off this fall, including James Madison University.

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 ...

It may still be summer outside, but it is not too early to think about fall Monarch migration. In fact, the Monarch Blitz, a yearly event to engage and educate the public about monarchs, has just ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Rebecca Zerlin spent her Saturday afternoon catching butterflies at a registered Monarch Butterfly Waystation in the King William neighborhood as a part of a large-scale program to tag the migrating ...

Before National Geographic published its famous August 1976 cover story detailing the search for the monarch butterfly’s wintering grounds, nobody knew where these strikingly beautiful creatures ...