In 2023, more than 16,000 butterflies were counted at one local grove. The most recent count was a tiny fraction of that.

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

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

This winter, volunteers from the Xerces Society, a nonprofit environmental group, tallied just 9,119 western monarchs — a ...

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The western monarch butterfly is being considered for the endangered species list, but public comment is still being gathered ...

A winter count of visiting monarch butterflies found a steep drop from previous years, which has scientists worried about the ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced in December 2024 that it was working to list monarchs as threatened.

If you're interested in a Florida vacation that doesn't involve sandy beaches or overcrowded theme parks, this butterfly park ...

A butterfly sits on a leaf at Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific Grove on Nov. 10, 2021. Photo by Nic Coury, AP Photo For the past three years, more than 200,000 western monarch butterflies spent ...

Even though Maine already has 31 official state symbols — including a soil type, soft drink, fossil and insect — there seems to be a tendency to focus on what we don't have. Take for example two ...