Butterflies sit on a pine tree at Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific Grove, Calif. Researchers say that the population of western monarch butterflies is well below what it used to be. One of the most ...

There's nothing quite like seeing a monarch butterfly spread its wings and glide through the air. It can certainly provide a sense of calm to life's everyday stressors. But the monarchs' numbers have ...

All across the Midwest and Eastern United States, people have been planting native milkweed and plants with nectar like asters and goldenrod to help support the monarch butterfly’s magical migration ...

A monarch on a maximilian sunflower in the Todd Waterfowl Production Area in the Kulm Wetland Management District. (USFWS photo) A proposal to list the monarch butterfly as threatened under the ...

With a deft move of his net, 12-year-old Bear Graf, of Middle Island, captured an energetic male monarch butterfly, distinguishable by the two dark marks on his hind wings. He delivered him to the ...