The annual migration south for monarch butterflies peaks in late September. Here's how to watch for the regal butterfly.

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 ...

The Western Monarch Count is underway, a community science project that aims to understand population changes for the orange ...

PISMO BEACH, Calif. – On Thursday, invertebrate conservation group the Xerxes Society released the results of their 28th annual Western Monarch Butterfly Count and recorded the second lowest ...

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For centuries, monarch butterflies have been celebrated in Mexico as ambassadors between the worlds of the living and the dead. Throughout November, Butterfly Pavilion’s exhibit “Monarch Magic” ...

Counters reported finding only two monarch butterflies at Ellwood East during the latest overwintering butterfly count in Goleta on Monday.  There were no ...

Large numbers of monarch butterflies have returned to the Ellwood Monarch Butterfly Grove in Goleta. (Mike Eliason photo) Thousands of monarch butterflies can now be seen in Ellwood Mesa in Goleta as ...

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 ...

Many butterflies from around the world migrate each year, but no butterfly can match the incredible monarch butterfly migration. In autumn, these orange and black butterflies travel up to 2,000 miles ...

Monarch butterflies on June 19, 2023 adjust to life outside their chrysalises within a protective mesh tent at Orlan Love’s Monarch Zone in Quasqueton. (Orlan Love/correspondent) Buy Photo Orange ...

We have conducted a number of monarch butterfly and milkweed classes over the last three years. The classes hosted over 450 attendees and distributed 900 milkweed seeded containers to gardeners in the ...