The Trump administration has delayed a decision on whether to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies indefinitely.

When animals are faced with extinction, they have three options: move, adapt, or die. Every year, the western monarch ...

Nine monarch caterpillars that emerged late in the season would have faced certain death had an Evergreen Park man not ...

Monarch butterflies from the western United States have arrived in Santa Cruz and other parts of the California Coast, clumping in the thousands on branches of Monterey pine, coastal redwoods and ...

Each fall, millions of monarch butterflies fly across Texas skies on their 3,000-mile journey to the mountains of central Mexico. The state’s position in the center of the migratory route makes it ...

Scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys that take thousands of miles to their winter colonies in Mexico. Scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys ...

DENVER, Colorado — When artist Juls Mendoza puts brush to canvas, every stroke carries meaning. Throughout his many years of professional work, there is one image his brush returns to again and again: ...

Every fall, millions of monarch butterflies drift across Texas skies on their way from Canada to Mexico. It's one of the longest insect migrations on the planet, and for many monarchs, Texas is the ...

Each fall, millions of monarch butterflies fly across Texas skies on their 3,000-mile journey to the mountains of central Mexico. The state's position in the center of the migratory route makes it ...

Monarch butterflies migrate to California each fall to escape cold weather and cluster in coastal groves from October to February. Key viewing spots include Natural Bridges in Santa Cruz, Pismo State ...

The monarch butterfly, Texas' official state insect, is in the middle of its 2,200 mile migration from Canada to Mexico — and you may be just in time to witness the remarkable journey. When is peak ...

PACIFIC GROVE — Longtime residents love to regale Natalie Johnston about the days when they had to sweep piles of western monarch butterflies off their front porches. They tell tales of teeming ...