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

Several Wisconsin organizations are fitting BluMorpho tags to monarch butterflies in Sept. 2026. The tags provide location data and will allow the monarchs to be tracked on their southerly migration, ...

We are nearing the end of the monarch butterfly migration.

Monarch butterflies are well-known and beloved migratory pollinators in North America. NNehring via Getty Images For generations, monarch butterflies have traveled thousands of miles across North ...

Southern California residents were encouraged on Wednesday to report sightings of western monarch butterflies as part of an effort to help scientists track the species’ sharply declining population ...

This photograph taken on December 9, 2023, shows a Plain Tiger (Danaus chrysippus) AKA African Monarch Butterfly in Kibbutz Be'eri, in southern Israel, near the border with the Gaza Strip. JACK ...

There’s only one host plant for a monarch butterfly—milkweed! Choose native varieties for your area such as common milkweed, butterfly weed, swamp milkweed and showy milkweed. Create a monarch haven ...

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Monarch butterflies are among the most beloved insects in North America. They are brightly colored and unique, both as caterpillars and later as mature insects. Monarchs are found in every U.S. state ...

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 ...