Thanks to tiny new trackers and Bluetooth, scientists—and you—can now follow the epic journeys of individual butterflies.
Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) have long been known for their impressive migration abilities, with North American species traveling around 3,000 miles from the United States and Canada into ...
For the upcoming Monarch Fest, the Monarch Research Project rears somewhere between 150 and 200 butterflies, which is only a small fraction of the thousands raised at the Marion research ...
A Western monarch butterfly in a California home garden. A new habitat analysis found that monarch butterflies mostly use private land to travel on their epic migrations. Credit: Jennifer Ferber/Alamy ...
Climate change, urban development and pesticides have caused the monarch butterfly population to drop over 90% in recent ...
From 2003 to 2019, amateur butterfly enthusiast Harlan Radcliff spent his lunch breaks observing butterflies on the grounds of the Camp Dodge military installation in central Iowa. Diane Debinski, ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — U.S. wildlife officials announced a decision Tuesday to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies after years of warnings from environmentalists that populations are ...
Monarch butterflies return to California for the winter in November in Santa Cruz, California. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking steps to list monarch butterflies as a threatened species ...
MADISON, Wis. — U.S. wildlife officials announced a decision Tuesday to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies after years of warnings from environmentalists that populations are shrinking ...
Every fall, an incredible migration occurs through the state of Indiana, where millions of tiny monarch butterflies fly on their way to overwintering grounds in Mexico, only to return in the spring to ...
One day after federal officials proposed monarch butterflies be listed as a threatened species, Texas' agriculture commissioner called the move an example of federal government overreach that would ...