WASHINGTON— A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation today that would provide $125 million in emergency funds over five years to save the western population of monarch butterflies from ...

Monarchs’ scientific name, Danaus plexippus, is Greek for “sleepy transformation”: a poetic description of the metamorphosis that happens in the chrysalis stage. Monarch butterflies only flap their ...

If all goes well, eggs become caterpillars, caterpillars enter the chrysalis phase ... have far-reaching impacts on the eastern and western monarch butterfly populations. The National Wildlife ...

At the same time, the population of western monarch butterflies has also seen a decline. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation monitors this population and reported the lowest count ...

Their chrysalis looks like a snake ... "North America’s eastern and western migratory monarch populations have faced significant threats from habitat loss, pesticide exposure, and climate ...