When a wounded monarch butterfly arrived at a Long Island wildlife center this summer, its chances of survival looked grim.

Our neighbor Mary has a small patch of milkweed behind her potting shed. It’s shaded by a young sassafras tree, and some Japanese stilt grass is pushing its way in as well. We use neighbor John and ...

Orange wings are on the move around Santa Barbara. The public is asked to keep watch for these wings to help track the area’s most royal of insects: monarch butterflies. Data collected by the region’s ...

A monarch butterfly enjoys the flowers at the Tom Ridge and Julian Wetlands in this file photo. Cooler temperatures and shorter days; goldenrods and asters blooming by the roadside. These are all ...

The monarch butterfly, known for its bright orange patterned wings, is in the middle of its migration from the northern U.S.

A broken wing almost ended a monarch butterfly's journey on Long Island, but a wing transplant gave it a second chance to fly ...

An injured monarch butterfly was given a second chance at life after undergoing a delicate wing transplant at a Long Island wildlife rehabilitation center. Since the Sweetbriar Nature Center shared ...

The California State Parks Foundation is asking Californians to track sightings of western monarch butterflies to help save the dwindling insect population. The California State Parks Foundation, a ...

The monarch butterfly is facing an uncertain future: Populations have been slowly declining for years, shrinking by as much as 90% due to human development. Last winter’s count of overwintering ...

TOWN OF CENTER (WLUK) -- Northeast Wisconsin lawmakers wants to make the endangered Monarch butterfly the state butterfly. State Rep. Paul Tittl of Manitowoc and State Sen. Rachael Cabral-Guevara of ...