After wintering over in Mexico, monarch butterflies are migrating to their northern breeding grounds, which includes Michigan ...

Madison Kuhle, 5, Lawrence, poses as a butterfly for her father at the Monarch Watch open house Saturday at Foley Hall on Kansas University's campus. Maxx Marshall, 4, Lawrence, gets an up-close ...

“Monarchs are the face of ... save them, monarch migrations will collapse and that would be morally unforgivable,” said Tierra Curry, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity. The ...

Some fall victim to strong winds, ending up off course. “There have been reports of butterflies that get pushed into the Gulf of Mexico and try to land on oil rigs.” Monarch Butterfly ...

Tens of millions of monarch butterflies are on an epic aerial journey home. They've spent the winter hanging out in trees in a forest on a remote mountain in Mexico, resting up after flying all ...

The monarch population is already small, she said, and triple-digit heat in the western states last year may have slowed ...

While the butterflies wintered in Mexico, the organization found that the eastern monarch butterfly colonies took up 2.2 acres of regional ... population isn't close to what it should be.