An orange and black species of butterfly native to the Kansas prairies is declining in population, and federal wildlife ...

The monarch population west of the Rocky Mountains ... only flap their wings around 5 to 12 times per second — much more slowly than the average butterfly, who flaps about 20 times a second. In the ...

“They might see lots of pollinating insects but there’s not a single butterfly in Georgia that relies on that bush to lay their eggs on. It does absolutely nothing to help that population from ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing the monarch butterfly as threatened after an estimated 80% decline in its migratory population. With this listing, monarchs could be given ...

But an alarming decline in state monarch butterfly populations exposes a larger trend: Florida’s wildlife is disappearing. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service just acted on behalf of the ...