The Western Monarch Count is underway, a community science project that aims to understand population changes for the orange ...

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For a second straight year, a low number of monarch butterflies have been counted at the popular Pismo State Beach Butterfly ...

The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...

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

In recent years, the number of monarch butterflies has been declining, and researchers don’t know the exact cause.

I recently had the opportunity to get a sneak preview of Flight of the Butterflies, which opens at the The American Museum of Natural History in New York City on Saturday, Jan 5. This movie taught me ...

We have been encouraging our backyard milkweed to grow ever since we moved over five years ago. I have friends who have issues with the aggressive growth of milkweed. We don’t have this problem. We ...

The Trump administration has delayed a decision on whether to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies indefinitely. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife service announced in December 2024 that ...

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