What sounded like leaves rustling in the wind was the flickering wings of thousands of monarch butterflies as they flitted through the oyamel fir forest. I opened my eyes and sat on the forest floor, ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The number of monarch butterflies wintering in the mountains west of Mexico City rebounded this year, doubling the area they covered in 2024 despite the stresses of climate ...
Last month an annual survey that looked just at monarch butterflies, which federal officials plan to put on the threatened species list, counted a nearly all-time low of fewer than 10,000 ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The number of monarch butterflies wintering in the mountains west of Mexico City rebounded this year ...
Every fall dozens of monarch butterfly enthusiasts deploy to groves on the California coast to tally the orange-and-black insects who spend the winter clustered on tree limbs. In 2024 there were more ...
Monarch butterflies are in trouble. Franklin Farms are trying to turn that around. Video / Alex Robertson “Every day I wake up with a smile on my face – who else can say they’re a butterfly ...
A federal plan to protect monarch butterfly habitat provides broad carveouts for farming practices. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposed listing of the monarch butterfly as a threatened ...