A roosting site in SW Iowa (Photo courtesy the Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium) Iowa is in the middle of a monarch flightpath as millions of the tiny insects migrate toward Mexico, and Iowans can ...

Fall is in the air, and this year’s monarch “super generation” is on the move. The first sightings of monarch butterfly roosts have been reported, signaling that the annual fall migration is underway.

This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Anderson Cooper reports on the migration of the monarch butterflies, an annual spring spectacle during which millions of butterflies begin their trek north from ...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — Monarch butterflies are loved by many people for their colorful features, but officials in Iowa are asking folks to do more than just watch these insects. Each fall, monarch ...

Monarch butterflies have a unique multigenerational migration pattern, leading to behaviors not seen in other butterfly species. This means they exhibit some amazing behaviors that are not seen in ...

Amid the eucalyptus groves at Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz, local bug enthusiast Sasha Hernandez squinted through the draping green leaves, searching for flashes of black and orange — the ...

Every fall and winter, one of the most delicate, iconic, endangered visitors, the western Monarch butterfly, settles in the towering eucalyptus trees surrounding Moran Lake County Park. Dwindling ...

KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — Children in the northwest might not see the fluttering orange and black wings of a Monarch butterfly on a summer day a few decades from now. A study published recently in the ...

For the first time in California, citizen scientists can join the effort to track monarch butterflies thanks to Blu+, a new ...

Monarch butterflies are well known for their metamorphosis, transforming from hungry caterpillars into beautiful butterflies. University of Delaware alumna Stacy Wolff has spent 14 years teaching the ...