The monarch butterfly life cycle begins with a whirl of wings in the heat of the summer sun. As a female monarch sips nectar ...

If there is no bird more American than the eagle, there is no butterfly more American than the monarch. Breathtaking and resilient, the monarch butterfly completes one of the most astounding ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to add the butterfly to the threatened species list by the end of next year following an extensive public comment period. "The iconic monarch butterfly is ...

We like to think we’re giving them a much better chance of survival.” A male monarch butterfly inside the butterfly pavilion at the Elkton Community Education Center. You can tell it's a male ...

It’s a big day for insects. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday that it is proposing the monarch butterfly for threatened species status under the Endangered Species Act ...

Taylor founded a nonprofit called Monarch Watch at the University of Kansas 30 years ago, and so far it's helped tag more than two million of them. Anderson Cooper: How do you tag a butterfly that ...

Federal wildlife authorities announced a proposal to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened ... because they physically move pollen from male parts to female parts of plants.

Before National Geographic published its famous August 1976 cover story detailing the search for the monarch butterfly’s wintering grounds, nobody knew where these strikingly beautiful creatures ...