Cooling weather and changing winds are helping monarch butterflies begin an extraordinary journey of up to 3,000 miles.

Butterfly benefactors gathered Thursday afternoon in southern Oregon’s Blue Heron Park to watch young western monarchs fitted with micro-transmitters fly away. Supporters of Southern Oregon Monarch ...

For the first time, Nature NB deployed new Bluetooth-enabled tags on monarch butterflies in New Brunswick this year, allowing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A female monarch butterfly collects pollen from a butterfly milkweed, Asclepias tuberosa. Migrating monarch butterflies are ...

One of the most recognizable—and imitated—insects in the world is on the edge of extinction, scientists warn. “Monarchs need our help, and we need monarchs because they are spectacular and ...

Heritage Farm has a lot of milkweed, the food of butterflies. Females lay tiny pinhead-sized eggs on milkweed leaves. When they hatch as caterpillars, they begin to eat the plant for about two weeks ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

An expert has confirmed what backyard gardeners and amateur naturalists have been saying for weeks: There are fewer monarch butterflies in Illinois this summer. At the national Monarch Larva ...

The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in California this winter, a foreboding sign for the future of the beloved ...