The number of monarch butterflies spending winter in the western U.S. dropped dramatically this year, despite moves to extend ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A butterfly sits on a leaf at Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific ...

Furthermore, ARS researchers in Fargo are assessing artificial insemination techniques for female butterflies using ...

The natural phenomenon of the iconic monarch butterflies migrating south for the winter is a fascinating one - and it's one ...

The monarch butterfly life cycle begins with a whirl of wings in the heat of the summer sun. As a female monarch sips nectar from a wildflower, a male hovers nearby. A pheromone is released from ...

This winter, volunteers from the Xerces Society, a nonprofit environmental group, tallied just 9,119 western monarchs — a ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking steps to list monarch butterflies as threatened species and designate seven ...

The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in ...

Among the thousand and thousands of monarch butterflies heading south to Mexico this fall are a couple hundred born, raised, and released at Bluff Creek Elementary School in Chanhassen. And when ...

Want to see the metamorphosis process up close? A monarch butterfly house is available for viewing at the Mustard Seed Landscape and Garden Center in Chanhassen. Ward Johnson, co-director of Save ...

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its second-lowest mark in nearly three decades as pesticides, diminishing habitat and climate ...