“The most iconic place to see monarchs here in Santa Barbara County is the Goleta Butterfly Grove in Elwood Mesa,” Cusser said. “On a good year, you can see hundreds, even thousands, of these ...

Support monarchs with native plants like goldenrod and aster. These fall bloomers fuel their 3,000-mile migration to Mexico.

Mayors or community leaders who take the pledge must commit to carrying out at least three of the 30 available actions listed ...

The population of essential milkweed plants has decreased over the past decades. Help restore their numbers by collecting ...

Editor’s note: The Wild is all about featuring a variety of exciting voices from SoCal’s outdoors scene. For the next several weeks, that voice will belong to Times staff writer Lila Seidman. A native ...

Volunteers plant hundreds of milkweed plants in hopes of supporting the dwindling Western monarch population in California.

CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY, Mo. (KFVS) - When many people think of a butterfly, they picture the iconic black and orange monarch. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is pushing to get monarch butterflies ...

A sign welcomes people into the Ellwood Monarch Butterfly Grove. A management plan lays out the work the city needs to do to improve the butterfly habitat, reduce wildfire risk and improve public ...

Alonso notes that the most important thing anyone can do, especially in the U.S., is plant milkweed native to where they live ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on April 20, 2025. The original video can be viewed here. Earlier this year we reported on one of the most remarkable and mysterious migrations in ...

The number of Monarch butterflies hibernating in Mexican forests decreased by 22% last year, and the number of trees lost from their favored wintering grounds tripled, according to an annual report ...