Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish ...

Are monarch butterflies endangered? Monarch population numbers are falling and it's clear that these butterflies need our ...

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

The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in ...

Evie Kinkead, a junior at Aptos High School, pitched this story about a project she spearheaded to help monarch butterfly ...

In 2023, more than 16,000 butterflies were counted at one local grove. The most recent count was a tiny fraction of that.

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States dropped dramatically this year even as ...

Monarch butterflies in the western U.S. have dropped to just 9,119 this year. In 2023, the count was 233,394, meaning a 96% decline.

Much of California’s Habitat for the migratory Monarch butterfly is gone. Wild fires have decimated groves of trees and plants where the Western Monarch winters. The typical flight plan of the Monarch ...

The monarch butterfly population spending the winter in the western United States has declined to its second-lowest level in nearly three decades.