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 first monarch butterfly of 2025 arrived about 10 days early, highlighting shifting migration patterns and the impact of ...

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 ...

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 youngsters raise monarch butterflies from eggs, learning to relate to the world around them as they watch them grow into caterpillars, get bigger, and spin their chrysalises in the classroom.