In July 2022, the IUCN added the monarch butterfly to its list as Endangered. The North American migratory population, which makes its way from as far north as Canada to Mexico each winter, is ...

Monarch butterflies are traveling 2,000 miles or more south across the U.S. right now, you can help researchers track them.

If you know about monarch butterflies, you’ve probably also learned about — or even witnessed! — their incredible life cycle. Take a look at milkweed plants during summer months, and you might spot an ...

Gardeners have noticed their flower beds are getting more visits from monarch butterflies this time of year. D.C.-area ...

In this episode of Adirondack Selections, Emily Russell and Dr. Curt Stager unpack the monarch butterfly's life cycle, from chrysalis to caterpillar to butterfly.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The end of summer and the beginning of fall is a unique time in Missouri when we see more pollinators as they migrate south before it gets cold. One of those pollinators is the ...

An expert has confirmed what backyard gardeners and amateur naturalists have been saying for weeks: There are fewer monarch butterflies in Illinois this summer. At the national Monarch Larva ...

It’s a sunny July afternoon, and Grayslake neighbors Annie Lawson and Heather Bauer are standing at the side of Lawson’s home, carefully going through her garden of milkweed plants. Lawson points at ...

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The hope is to learn where the insects stop on their southward migration — and where they’re imperiled along the way.