The Western Monarch Count is underway, a community science project that aims to understand population changes for the orange ...

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In recent years, the number of monarch butterflies has been declining, and researchers don’t know the exact cause.

For the first time in California, citizen scientists can join the effort to track monarch butterflies thanks to Blu+, a new ...

The Trump administration has delayed a decision on whether to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies indefinitely MADISON, Wis. -- President Donald Trump's administration has delayed a ...

The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...

For a second straight year, a low number of monarch butterflies have been counted at the popular Pismo State Beach Butterfly ...

PACIFIC GROVE — The Thanksgiving holiday has historically marked the peak sightings of western monarch butterflies on California’s Central Coast. The peak reached 8,000 this year, a fraction of what ...

We have been encouraging our backyard milkweed to grow ever since we moved over five years ago. I have friends who have issues with the aggressive growth of milkweed. We don’t have this problem. We ...

For centuries, monarch butterflies have traveled thousands of miles across North America, guided by instincts that scientists ...

Beyond the monarch, lovely nectar-laden, fragrant flowers attract and nourish a diversity of other butterflies, moths, native bees, honeybees, wasps, flies, beetles and ants. Along with their sap, ...

Monarch butterflies from the western United States have arrived in Santa Cruz and other parts of the California coast, ...