Bumble bees and butterflies are in trouble. They’re declining in part because there are fewer places where they can find food and shelter. There is widespread concern about what this will mean for the ...

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

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Amid the eucalyptus groves at Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz, local bug enthusiast Sasha Hernandez squinted through the draping green leaves, searching for flashes of black and orange — the ...

ESCANABA, MI – This monarch butterfly hotspot could attract even more pollinators in the future. A long-term pollinator habitat restoration project is underway at Peninsula Point, the southern tip of ...

GOLETA, Calif. (KEYT) – Ultra-light tracking tags are being deployed for the first time locally on Western Monarch butterflies to monitor how and where these iconic creatures migrate. The tracking ...

More than a dozen volunteers planted 850 milkweeds throughout the Spring Ridge Wildlife Sanctuary on Monday as part of a budding monarch butterfly habitat conservation project. Through a grant from ...

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Counters reported finding only two monarch butterflies at Ellwood East during the latest overwintering butterfly count in Goleta on Monday.  There were no ...

A monarch butterfly carrying a tiny tag developed by Cellular Tracking Technologies at the Cape May Point Arts and Science Center in Cape May Point, N.J., Nov. 12, 2025. Scientists used tiny new ...

While I suspect the majority of people here in Texas have seen a monarch butterfly, most probably don’t know that they make ...

It’s hard to overlook the brilliant orange and black wings of a monarch butterfly as it moves through a garden of flowers. It’s also hard to believe that the life cycle of this incredibly colorful ...