The journey spans multiple generations, with each generation flying a portion of the route before laying eggs and passing the task to their offspring. Monarch butterflies have an innate ability to ...

By creating a butterfly habitat in your backyard, you can help at-risk species such as monarch butterflies to thrive. These lovely creatures contribute greatly to the health of our ecosystem by ...

Monarch butterflies are unique in their migration patterns. Eastern monarchs travel between Mexico and the U.S., spending ...

Western monarch butterflies are considered an iconic species ... It would just be amazing — thousands of them flying all around you. It’s hard to explain the feeling.” ...

Monarch butterflies make one of the largest insect migrations in the world, flying around 2,500 miles from the US and Canada to Mexico. During their migration they provide an essential pollination ...

He said monarchs are particularly remarkable because they migrate each year, flying from as far as ... “To protect the monarch butterfly, we have to protect the habitat. And protecting that ...

Just over 9,000 monarchs were counted in California last winter, the second lowest ever since the annual count began in 1997 ...

A winter count of visiting monarch butterflies found a steep drop from previous years, which has scientists worried about the ...