Say the word “butterfly,” and the iconic orange and black of the monarch may immediately spring to mind. But they are becoming a rarer and rarer sight in nature.

Monarch butterflies are important culturally and ecologically across North America. Generations have watched in wonder as yellow-and-black striped caterpillars fold into green-and-gold chrysalises and ...

(First Alert 4) - The monarch butterfly could ... And here in St. Louis, the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House is doing its part to keep this iconic insect flying in nature. First Alert 4 first ...

SAN DIEGO — U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing monarch butterflies as a threatened species and has considered some possibly contradictory ways to protect them, Nicholas Storer ...

The widespread use of pesticides, such as Roundup, has killed off milkweed plants, a crucial food source for monarchs.

The natural phenomenon of the iconic monarch butterflies migrating south for the winter is a fascinating one - and it's one ...

For the past three years, more than 200,000 western monarch ... (the butterflies) would burst out of their clusters and go out to feed. It would just be amazing — thousands of them flying ...

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the ... The highest number recorded was 1.2 million in 1997. The organization announced Friday that it counted just 9,119 monarchs in ...

PERRYSBURG, Ohio — Learning in the field was definitely the goal for two northwest Ohio science teachers who went on a field ...

Before National Geographic published its famous August 1976 cover story detailing the search for the monarch butterfly ... overwintering butterflies mate and fly north, eventually stopping ...