The monarch butterfly, an unmistakable sign of spring, is now considered an endangered species at risk of extinction. The International Union for Conservation added the monarch butterfly to its Red ...

A kaleidoscope of orange-and-yellow monarch butterflies soon will return to Michigan as they finish their overwintering in Mexico and Central America and begin fluttering home to breed. "Monarchs have ...

The northward monarch butterfly migration took weeks of flapping wings and several generations to reach the Great Lakes region. Monarch butterflies winter over in Mexico and then make their way north ...

After dire numbers were posted in 2020, the endangered western monarch butterfly population comeback continued last year, but experts fear the current rally may be cut short by this past winter’s long ...

Armed with a small trowel, I leaned over on my hands and knees on a hot evening in August and carefully tried to rescue our fledgling butterfly garden. Aggressive ivy had wrapped around the little ...

On a suburban street with smooth lawns and trimmed bushes, Martha Chiplis’ yard stands out. It’s not just the wildflowers: purple wild petunia, golden lanceleaf coreopsis, hot-pink Bush’s poppy mallow ...

A butterfly meadow at Powell Gardens outside Kansas City. The Highway 13 Butterfly Trail will pass through 12 western Missouri counties and feature gardens, art installations, and research facilities.

Stratford-upon-Avon Butterfly Farm is celebrating the amazing migration story of the ‘Monarch Butterfly’ and its associations ...