"I really want to spread the word that we should not give up right now," said Isis Howard, a conservation biologist with the ...

It’s always a thrill when a beautiful orange butterfly flutters through your backyard. First things first, how do you actually know if you’re seeing a monarch? Some butterflies look like monarchs.

In 2023, more than 16,000 butterflies were counted at one local grove. The most recent count was a tiny fraction of that.

Transformations come in many varieties and in recent years, one local gardener has undergone a metamorphosis of her own. It all started four years ago, when Linda Pelzl of Prior Lake heard a ...

Newly released data shows that the number of monarch butterflies migrating to California this winter is near-record low. "We ...

In a new study, scientists pulled from a 35-year dataset to examine long-term population trends of the federally endangered ...

"A lot of people care about monarchs ... the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed the inclusion of the Monarch Butterfly as a threatened species under section 4(d) of the Endangered Species ...