Scientists are grappling with a stark population decline of the western monarch butterfly after the species’ numbers hit a ...

Renowned photography competition selects winning photos with a concerning cause for butterflies and climate change.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking steps to list monarch butterflies as threatened species and designate seven ...

The Western population of the monarch butterfly hit a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in California this ...

The monarch butterfly, long idolized for its epic migrations ... s nectaring on or the milkweed species if it’s laying eggs. Photos are highly encouraged and welcome with all reports.

On Thursday, invertebrate conservation group the Xerxes Society released the results of their 28th annual Western Monarch ...

Citizen scientists are called on to help with tagging monarch butterflies and find out why their numbers are dropping.

Monarch butterflies have declined 80 percent or more in recent decades Each year, eastern monarchs embark on a migration spanning thousands of miles and multiple generations to overwintering ...

Western Monarch Count observed a peak population of 9,119 Monarch butterflies in California this winter, marking a sharp decline in the last few years. The count, administered by ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes listing Monarch butterflies as threatened, seeking public input until March 2025.

Western Monarch Butterflies have reached record low numbers along the Central Coast, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

It is usually the species people recall when drawing a butterfly and observations are shared frequently on the online social network iNaturalist. This is partly because monarch images are used in ...