Pesticides, habitat loss and climate change have taken their toll on the beloved insects. But the experts working with them ...

Recent news out of Mexico offers an encouraging sign for future generations of monarchs. On March 17, 2026, the monarch winter 2025-2026 population numbers were ...

Every year, the World Wildlife Fund Mexico partners with other conservation groups and local citizens to conduct a count of eastern monarch butterflies in their winter home, the Monarch Butterfly ...

A tiny, solar-powered transmitter is allowing scientists for the first time to track monarch butterfly migrations to and from ...

U.S. wildlife officials announced a decision in December to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies after years of warnings from environmentalists that populations are shrinking and the ...

Greece, N.Y. — Bartolomeo & Perotto Funeral Home unveiled its newly designated monarch waystation Sunday. The conservation garden is meant to support the declining monarch butterfly population. The ...

Monarch butterflies are welcome visitors in any garden. If you want to attract more to your outdoor space, this lovely native ...

It happens to every nature enthusiast at least once. You spot an orange butterfly with black markings hovering around a pretty flower and say, “Oh, look, it’s a monarch!” Except, on closer inspection, ...

Monarch butterfly populations have nearly doubled this year, an annual survey of the species found. At the end of each summer, the beloved pollinators migrate from southern Canada and the northern and ...

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 ...

Monarch butterflies are heading north after a 64% wintering-ground increase. Here are the nectar plants and milkweed that can ...

In a turn of events, the eastern monarch butterfly population — which was put on the list of endangered species just a few years ago — nearly doubled this year, according to a March report from the ...