Monarch butterflies are important culturally and ecologically across North America. Generations have watched in wonder as yellow-and-black striped caterpillars fold into ... much more slowly than the ...

The monarch butterfly is easily identified by its bold ... Some monarch butterflies migrate each year while others do not. As caterpillars, they live exclusively on milkweed.

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

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

Federal wildlife authorities announced a proposal to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened ... are the sole host plants for the insect’s caterpillars. Monarch butterflies are divided ...

Designating of the migratory monarch butterfly as threatened would allow for further conservation efforts to prevent their extinction. Dr. Rebeca Quiñonez-Piñón, monarch recovery strategist and ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing the monarch butterfly as a threatened ... of monarchs dies as a new one grows into caterpillars and eventually become butterflies.