“This makes monarchs a ‘gateway’ butterfly – sparking joy, curiosity and encouraging exploration of the greater natural world.” Pulscher said the Monarch Festival co-produced with Monarch Joint ...

Pesticides and habitat loss have been the chief reasons for the loss of the butterfly, which is being considered for the ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposed protection of the monarch butterfly as threatened under the Endangered Species ...

Monarch butterflies only flap their wings around 5 to 12 times per second — much more slowly than the average butterfly, who flaps about 20 times a second. In the right conditions, a migrating monarch ...

migration of the North American monarch is in danger from climate change and forest clearing in Mexico (where some monarchs overwinter), but the butterfly appears to be adapting and is common in ...

A recent proposal to protect the iconic orange-and-black monarch butterfly under the U.S. Endangered ... gathers to overwinter in a stretch of forest in California. “The Bureau of Land ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing protection for one of the nation’s most beloved species — the monarch butterfly — and is encouraging the public to be part of its recovery. The Service ...

SFA Gardens will host the monthly Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9, in the Ina Brundrett Conservation Education Building at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center, 2900 ...

In 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made several major decisions to declare New Mexico species endangered or threatened — or not. Here's a recap of some of those decisions and a look forward ...

While wasps are also important to the natural environment, their predation on monarch butterfly caterpillars ... According to the U.S. Forest Service, there are around 26 different species of ...

The annual migration of North America’s monarch butterfly every fall is a unique and amazing phenomenon, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The monarch is the only butterfly known to make a ...

The butterfly's eastern migratory population ... In just one year, between 2021 and 2022, the presence of monarch butterflies in their Mexican forest wintering grounds dropped by 22%, according ...