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 ...

Kansas University students and Monarch Watch research assistants Emily Hrenchir, Paola sophomore, front, and Kate Bendfeldt, Leawood senior, transfer caterpillars to small plastic containers ...

“We want people to continue to raise caterpillars and monarchs in their homes and use them for education,” said Lori Nordstrom, assistant regional director for ecological services for the ...

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.