Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish ...

This year the organization counted 9,119 monarchs, the second-lowest total since tracking began in 1997. The organization has ...

The number of monarch butterflies spending winter in the western U.S. dropped dramatically this year, despite moves to extend ...

The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in ...

Thogmartin and other researchers have evaluated more than 200 scenarios for restoring greater than 1.3 billion stems of ...

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

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking steps to list monarch butterflies as threatened species and designate seven ...

Overwintering populations of monarch butterflies in California have reached a near all-time low since records began, conservationists announced on Thursday. The ...

If you let the fruit sit in wet soil, it can rot. In 2024, 210 Central Texas Gardeners attended seven free classes to learn ...

Scientists are grappling with a stark population decline of the western monarch butterfly after the species’ numbers hit a ...

Before National Geographic published its famous August 1976 cover story detailing the search for the monarch butterfly’s ...