A recent study by the Worldwide Fund has revealed a promising increase in the population of the eastern monarch butterfly, marking a significant r ...

The Highway 13 Butterfly Trail will pass through 12 western Missouri counties and feature gardens, art installations, and ...

All across this country we are seeing fewer and fewer of the beautiful Eastern Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus). The same ...

Butterflies are beautiful creatures that typically have magnificent coloring and are associated with sunshine, flowers, ...

“They have smaller flowers so butterflies with tiny proboscides can reach the nectar,” she said. “Butterfly bush (Buddleja) ...

Monarch butterflies are now listed as endangered.

By late May each year, monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) return to the Berkshires from their winter home in the oyamel fir forests in the Sierra Madre Mountains of central Mexico, ...

Every year, monarch butterflies embark on one of the world's most marvelous migrations. These insects travel from the northeast U.S. and southeast Canada to mountain forests in central Mexico, where ...

Why Do Monarch Butterflies Swarm? Monarch butterflies, like other butterfly species and birds, must migrate to warmer climates during the cold winter months. Monarch butterflies are unique because ...

Monarch butterflies are migrating north and have been spotted in states near Michigan. Although their wintering population doubled this year, monarchs have experienced a significant overall ...

The migratory monarch butterfly—the iconic subspecies common to North America—was declared endangered today by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the global leading ...