In 2021, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature changed the status of monarch butterflies to endangered on their Red List of Threatened Species. As a result of a petition and ...

The proposal notes that private citizens have a unique opportunity to help rescue a threatened species by raising butterflies—but this could be counterproductive. In our view, the most effective ...

While the students are not raising butterflies themselves, they hope that by increasing the availability of milkweed — the only plant where monarchs lay their eggs — they will provide ...

As I began my career as an intern at the Audubon, you can imagine the complete sense of euphoria that I felt upon learning that part of the job included hunting and raising monarch caterpillars ...

At a table in her Guildwood backyard, Wendy Christensen held up a tiny greenish pouch called a chrysalis. Inside, a monarch caterpillar had started to change. Christensen, a teacher, raised nearly 100 ...

Hummingbirds aren't the only spring-time animals on the move across Georgia. Sightings of monarch butterflies have been seen predominantly near southern cities like Savannah and St. Mary's ...

WASHINGTON— In response to a decade of advocacy by conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect monarch butterflies as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

The World Wildlife Fund's latest count of migratory monarch butterflies offers some encouraging news for the eastern population while the western population may be struggling to survive.