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 ...

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

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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.

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 ...