The Deschutes Land Trust announced today that it is hosting a Monarch Butterfly Naming Contest in July. Kids ages 5-17 can ...

A new generation of monarch butterflies is taking flight, and researchers in eastern Iowa are working to learn where the insects will travel next.Monarch Resear ...

The western monarch butterfly has experienced a 95% dip in population since the 1980s.

With vigorous debate surrounding the health of the monarch butterfly, new research from the University of Georgia may have answered the biggest question plaguing butterfly researchers. Why are the ...

With a flutter and flap of wings, monarch butterflies soar through the air and float from flower to flower at the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa. Everyone in the Ivey-Caldwell family gives ...

Thanks to the tagging efforts of the Loess Hills Master Naturalists, Monarch Watch, an organization based at the University of Kansas that tracks and studies monarch butterflies, has ...

The once-common orange-and-black butterflies have declined by 90% in recent decades, with the latest count showing the second smallest population on record, according to the Center for Biological ...

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 ...

A monarch butterfly with a tag on its wing perches on a flower head at Monarch Watch's butterfly tagging event at the Baker Wetlands on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. Monarch Watch is contributing to a ...

From 2003 to 2019, amateur butterfly enthusiast Harlan Radcliff spent his lunch breaks observing butterflies on the grounds of the Camp Dodge military installation in central Iowa. Diane Debinski, ...