The charismatic monarch butterfly is migrating through the Lone Star State, as the species heads to Mexico for winter.

According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, more than 160 butterfly species breed in the state and ...

With its iconic black and orange coloring, the monarch butterfly is considered a vulnerable species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. File photo by TAMMY LJUNGBLAD The Kansas ...

“Every scientist I've talked to agrees that the monarch butterfly migration is going away. It’s just a question of when," said Maeckle, who recently wrote the book The Monarch Butterfly ...

For a monarch butterfly, the more white spots you have ... assistant researcher at University of Georgia's Odum School of Ecology. Getty Images The more white spots, the better, researchers ...

Meanwhile, the monarch populations had continued to decline, and we wanted to see what was happening in the butterfly reserve now that its most well-known champion was gone. Ocampo is about a ...

Samantha Taylor of Bolivar and her neighbors, Sarah Venery and Heather Mesler, have been raising and releasing monarch ...

The monarch ... with butterfly enthusiasts around the state. The group created a Facebook page called Morris Monarchs and shared a survey in online gardening groups, offering free milkweed seeds ...

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OLATHE, Kan. — Diane Stoakes created a monarch butterfly garden at Aberdeen Village retirement community in Olathe when her dad, Lawrence, resided there in 2015. Lawrence has since passed ...

SPRINGDALE, Ark. — The annual Monarch Flight Festival released around 50 monarch butterflies on Sept. 14. Every year the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History partners with Downtown Springdale to raise ...

Renowned for their incredible migration of over 2,200 miles between Canada and Mexico, the monarch butterfly is one of the most recognizable species in the nation—and their journey is currently ...