"I really want to spread the word that we should not give up right now," said Isis Howard, a conservation biologist with the ...

Pelton said that it’s too early to tell what long-term impact the dramatic losses might have on the overall western monarch ...

The number of monarch butterflies spending winter in the western U.S. dropped dramatically this year, despite moves to extend ...

This winter, volunteers from the Xerces Society, a nonprofit environmental group, tallied just 9,119 western monarchs — a ...

Scientists considered those counts in the millions as a stable population level for the traveling insects shared the ... proposed the inclusion of the Monarch Butterfly as a threatened species ...

A single monarch butterfly warms in the late morning sun ... data about monarchs and spread the word about challenges the insects face. “A lot of people don’t know about the plight of monarch ...

Western monarchs' future looks murky Pelton said that it's too early to tell what long-term impact the dramatic losses might have on the overall western monarch population. Insects do have the ...

A winter count of visiting monarch butterflies found a steep drop from previous years, which has scientists worried about the ...

Dramatic Drop in Monarch Butterfly Count Nears Record 30-Year ... are lethal to the insects, Pelton said. The western states saw a heat wave in July that drove temperatures in some areas well ...