Across their range, monarchs are threatened ... that happens in the chrysalis stage. Monarch butterflies only flap their wings around 5 to 12 times per second — much more slowly than the average ...

The major U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposal would declare the iconic species as threatened, with federal scientists ...

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