Fishing duo Cole & Jay raise monarch butterflies from caterpillars at home.

Sonia Altizer of UGA explains why monarch butterfly populations are declining, the environmental factors behind it, and what can be done to help.

Apple is expected to add a new batch of emojis with iOS 27, based on draft proposals published by the Unicode Consortium. The ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service will miss by well over a country mile its deadline for deciding whether to protect the monarch butterfly under the Endangered Species Act. One year after its Dec. 12, ...

Amid the eucalyptus groves at Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz, local bug enthusiast Sasha Hernandez squinted through the draping green leaves, searching for flashes of black and orange — the ...

Only 20 butterflies were counted for the 2025 pre-season monarch butterfly count, according to Charis van der Heide, senior biologist and monarch butterfly specialist with Althouse and Meade Inc.

Monarch butterflies migrate to California each fall to escape cold weather and cluster in coastal groves from October to February. Key viewing spots include Natural Bridges in Santa Cruz, Pismo State ...

A monarch on a maximilian sunflower in the Todd Waterfowl Production Area in the Kulm Wetland Management District. (USFWS photo) A proposal to list the monarch butterfly as threatened under the ...

The monarch butterfly, Texas' official state insect, is in the middle of its 2,200 mile migration from Canada to Mexico — and you may be just in time to witness the remarkable journey. When is peak ...

It's been an unusually hot fall in Texas, and that may explain why the iconic southbound march of the monarch butterfly appears to be slowing to a crawl. Texas' weather this year may offer a clue.

If you see a monarch butterfly in your Wichita yard, you might want to take an extra long look, because this may be the last month of the year you’ll see them flying around your garden. The monarch ...

MISSOURI, USA — A Missouri Department of Conservation official recently spotted a ghostly variation of a Monarch butterfly in the state. Natural History Biologist Amanda Gehin saw an extremely rare ...