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

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

1:10 p.m. Oct. 30, 2023: An earlier version of this article stated that the California Bumble Bee Atlas project is a Xerces-supported group in Riverside. The project, based in Riverside, is run by the ...

Jerry Pugh had a rare experience this year: He saw a monarch butterfly in the wild. Though the Boise Parks and Recreation volunteer coordinator works to conserve the endangered butterfly, sightings ...

The monarch butterfly fluttered a step closer to extinction last Thursday, as scientists put the iconic orange-and-black insect on the endangered list because of its fast dwindling numbers. “It’s just ...

The monarch butterfly, chosen in 1975 to be Illinois' State Insect, fluttered a step closer to extinction Thursday, as scientists put the iconic orange-and-black insect on the endangered list because ...

The monarch butterfly, state insect of Texas, has been rapidly declining in number over the last 20 years, going down by 95% according to some estimates. Every spring and fall, millions of monarch ...

Oliver Milman is the author of The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run the World, which is available now from W. W. Norton. In the depths of the Californian winter, an ember of hope ...

Monarch butterflies have begun fluttering across Michigan after a migration that began in Mexico. The brightly colored insects have been reported in southeast Michigan, migration watchers say.

Linda Auld has a thing for bugs. The self-proclaimed "Bug Lady" has spent more than 35 years learning everything she can about insects. That interest has developed into a passion for butterflies -- ...

The monarch butterfly fluttered a step closer to extinction Thursday, as scientists put the iconic orange-and-black insect on the endangered list because of its fast dwindling numbers. The native ...