For years, planting milkweed was the go-to way to help monarchs. Now, scientists say it may be fueling a parasite that’s devastating Gulf Coast butterflies.

The first butterfly transplant surgery was recently performed in New York.

Skyler Stelz and her husband stumbled upon a striking monarch butterfly with a damaged wing, and they quickly realized there ...

If you see a monarch butterfly in your Wichita yard, you might want to take an extra long look, because this may be the last month of the year you’ll see them flying around your garden. The monarch ...

Hundreds of Monarch butterflies are lingering on Cat Island instead of continuing their migration to Mexico, prompting a ...

MISSOURI, USA — A Missouri Department of Conservation official recently spotted a ghostly variation of a Monarch butterfly in the state. Natural History Biologist Amanda Gehin saw an extremely rare ...

When a wounded monarch butterfly arrived at a Long Island wildlife center this summer, its chances of survival looked grim. One of its paper-thin orange wings had torn clean off, grounding the tiny ...

A member of the Missouri Department of Conservation spotted an animal in Kansas City that’s usually seen 4,000 miles away. . The department said in a social media post that assistant natural history ...

It's been an unusually hot fall in Texas, and that may explain why the iconic southbound march of the monarch butterfly appears to be slowing to a crawl. Texas' weather this year may offer a clue.

PACIFIC GROVE — Longtime residents love to regale Natalie Johnston about the days when they had to sweep piles of western monarch butterflies off their front porches. They tell tales of teeming ...