Volunteers plant hundreds of milkweed plants in hopes of supporting the dwindling Western monarch population in California.

It’s a sunny July afternoon, and Grayslake neighbors Annie Lawson and Heather Bauer are standing at the side of Lawson’s home, carefully going through her garden of milkweed plants. Lawson points at ...

As July sunlight pokes through the trees, a butterfly egg rests gently in Wojciech Poreba’s palm as he sifts through milkweed leaves at Hamlet Park in Cottage Grove. At age 25, Poreba has four years ...

A proposal to list the monarch butterfly as threatened under the Endangered Species Act may not be finalized anytime soon, ...

Local Monarch butterfly expert Karen Oberhauser discusses migration to Mexico, population decline and the push to make ...

An expert has confirmed what backyard gardeners and amateur naturalists have been saying for weeks: There are fewer monarch butterflies in Illinois this summer. At the national Monarch Larva ...

Mayors or community leaders who take the pledge must commit to carrying out at least three of the 30 available actions listed ...

Will and Karen Collier of Bettendorf love raising monarch butterflies by gathering eggs and caterpillars and bringing them inside to develop. After a slow start to the season they had, as of Wednesday ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Monarch butterflies are gracing the Central Texas landscape as they migrate down to Mexico for the winter.

Sara Bartholomew was shocked one day mid-month when she saw her first monarch of the season in Rock Island. "I thought it must have been a fluke," she said. Then she looked out into her Davenport yard ...

LEHI, Utah — Butterfly enthusiasts are patiently waiting for Monarch butterflies to arrive in Utah after their migration was delayed due to cold and wet winter conditions. “The adult butterflies need ...

Clad in all kinds of ornate and beautiful colors, the butterfly is a winged insect that flies from flower to flower, consuming the rich, sugary nectar inside. There are nearly 20,000 species of ...