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

Newly released data shows that the number of monarch butterflies migrating to California this winter is near-record low. "We ...

Spring usually unfolds slowly, carefully, like the wings of a monarch butterfly as it labors into its new life after escaping its pupa. This year, spring exploded, like the seeds of a ...

An alarming decline in the population of pollinators, honey bees and monarch butterflies in particular, is proof once again that mankind’s innovative genius causes at least as many problems ...

Are monarch butterflies endangered? Monarch population numbers are falling and it's clear that these butterflies need our ...

Much of California’s Habitat for the migratory Monarch butterfly is gone. Wild fires have decimated groves of trees and plants where the Western Monarch winters. The typical flight plan of the Monarch ...

Just over 9,000 monarchs were counted in California last winter, the second lowest ever since the annual count began in 1997 ...

Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish ...

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

The monarch butterfly population spending the winter in the western United States has declined to its second-lowest level in nearly three decades.

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

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