In Pursuit of the Monarch’s Magnetic Sense

The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...
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Rare butterfly found in Kansas City: A ghost or genetic anomaly?

A member of the Missouri Department of Conservation spotted an animal in Kansas City that's usually seen 4,000 miles away. . The department said in a social media post that assistant natural history ...
KSDK

Extremely rare white Monarch butterfly spotted in Missouri

MISSOURI, USA — A Missouri Department of Conservation official recently spotted a ghostly variation of a Monarch butterfly in the state. Natural History Biologist Amanda Gehin saw an extremely rare ...
NBC Bay Area

Californians asked to track monarch butterfly sightings to help save declining population

The California State Parks Foundation is asking Californians to track sightings of western monarch butterflies to help save the dwindling insect population. The California State Parks Foundation, a ...
Chicago Tribune

Grayslake residents share passion for monarch butterflies; ‘It’s like this whole other world that you come into’

It’s a sunny July afternoon, and Grayslake neighbors Annie Lawson and Heather Bauer are standing at the side of Lawson’s home, carefully going through her garden of milkweed plants. Lawson points at ...
Santa Barbara Independent

Santa Barbara Asked to Count Monarch Butterflies

Orange wings are on the move around Santa Barbara. The public is asked to keep watch for these wings to help track the area’s most royal of insects: monarch butterflies. Data collected by the region’s ...