Suitable milkweed habitat in Mexico may shift south, fracturing existing migration routes and possibly pushing some ...

SAN DIEGO — U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing monarch butterflies as a threatened species and has considered some possibly contradictory ways to protect them, Nicholas Storer, vice ...

It's a cautionary signal. Researchers issue warning after discovering concerning threat to beloved creatures: 'A wakeup call' first appeared on The Cool Down.

BROWNWOOD, Texas - A museum in Brownwood started a garden to help preserve the monarch butterfly. The Martin and Francis Lehnis Railroad Museum unveiled its new butterfly exhibit and garden dedicated ...

Climate warming can impact plant quality, which in turn shapes the nutrition and immune defense of insect herbivores like monarch butterflies.

Our neighbor Mary has a small patch of milkweed behind her potting shed. It’s shaded by a young sassafras tree, and some Japanese stilt grass is pushing its way in as well. We use neighbor John and ...

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 decline ...

The feared fatal decline of western monarch butterflies in California paused at the precipice this winter, when almost the same number as last year showed up along the coast, giving biologists a ...

The World Wildlife Fund's latest count of migratory monarch butterflies offers some encouraging news for the eastern population while the western population may be struggling to survive. The ...