The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...

Van der Heide got her start at Cal Poly, tagging monarchs by numbering their wings in Sharpie and trying to find them later with a spotting scope, “like a needle in a haystack,” she said. This new, ...

An international collaboration to track individual monarchs kicked off this fall, including James Madison University.

For the first time in California, citizen scientists can join the effort to track monarch butterflies thanks to Blu+, a new ...

In late 2024, a tagged monarch named Lionel migrated from New Jersey to Florida, logging thousands of detections along the ...

Every year, thousands of butterflies migrate from New England to the warmer airs of central Mexico, some 3,000 miles away. Scientists across the country are studying their migration patterns through a ...

WORRIED ABOUT THE BUTTERFLY... WHICH HAS ALREADY ON THE CANDIDATE LIST FOR ENDANGERED SPECIES.### IT ONLY TAKES A QUICK WALK-THROUGH PACIFIC GROVE BEFORE YOU NOTICE A LACK OF BRIGHT ORANGE WINGS ...

With its iconic black and orange coloring, the monarch butterfly is considered a vulnerable species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. File photo by TAMMY LJUNGBLAD The Kansas City ...

SALISBURY — Last weekend, Salisbury had a hand in one of the largest natural migrations taking place across the U.S., and it happened in a flutter. Hurley Park hosted the annual monarch butterfly ...

The monarch butterfly is an icon with enduring strength and tenacity while flying thousands of miles. Sadly, wildfires, land development, and greedy people are killing the Western monarch. When ...