Maeckle is the author of "The Monarch Butterfly Migration: Its Rise and Fall." She will be available to sign books at the lecture, and books will be available for purchase. Advertisement ...

The official state insect of Texas is in trouble. The monarch butterfly, long idolized for its epic migrations and delicate beauty, is facing another alarming chapter in its decline. Volunteers ...

Pesticides and habitat loss have been the chief reasons for the loss of the butterfly, which is being considered for the ...

After Kathy Marshburn lost a child, she didn’t know how she’d move on. Violet was only two months old when she died unexpectedly, of a heart condition, in 2002. Marshburn, who lived in the ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Each year, millions of majestic orange and black monarch butterflies make an extreme, multi-generational 3,000 mile migration ... the migratory monarch butterfly as threatened ...

U.S. officials moved Tuesday to protect the monarch, an iconic orange-and-black butterfly famous for its marathon migration across North America, under the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish ...

Federal wildlife officials on Tuesday moved to add the monarch butterfly to its endangered ... and degradation of habitat used for breeding, migration and overwintering, including milkweed plants ...

The Monarch butterfly migration from the Midwest U.S. in fall to overwinter in the mountains of southern Mexico and return in spring is a captivating natural history phenomenon. They also migrate ...

But there could soon be an addition to the threatened list that’s local to your backyard: the monarch butterfly ... which can be measured in migration numbers. Data from citizen scientists ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to add the butterfly to the threatened ... global wildlife preservation organization, tracks monarch migration in that country. The group released data ...

Tight rules could also backfire by dissuading people from creating butterfly ... who works on monarch recovery at the National Wildlife Federation. “Losing the migration means losing deep ...