For centuries, monarch butterflies have traveled thousands of miles across North America, guided by instincts that scientists ...

In late 2024, a tagged monarch named Lionel migrated from New Jersey to Florida, logging thousands of detections along the ...

An international collaboration to track individual monarchs kicked off this fall, including James Madison University.

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

Van der Heide got her start at Cal Poly, tagging monarchs by numbering their wings in Sharpie and trying to find them later ...

A monarch butterfly with a critical wing injury was given a second chance to fly after New York rescuers performed an intricate transplant procedure. The vulnerable insect was brought to Sweetbriar ...

When this monarch butterfly hits the sky it won't be traveling alone. In fact, an energetic team of researchers will be ...

Each fall, millions of monarch butterflies fly across Texas skies on their 3,000-mile journey to the mountains of central Mexico. The state's position in the center of the migratory route makes it ...

The plight of the monarch butterfly could cost farmers a valuable tool in the fight to protect crops from weeds and pests. An effort is underway to list the monarch butterfly as threatened under the ...

Biologists have attached tiny, solar transmitters to the monarch butterflies, allowing researchers and everyday visitors to ...

“Monarch Magic,” Butterfly Pavilion’s monthlong celebration of the iconic butterfly, showcases the little pollinators and all they do for humanity, from their cultural impact to ecological ...

Skyler Stelz and her husband stumbled upon a striking monarch butterfly with a damaged wing, and they quickly realized there might be a way to give it a second chance. Despite knowing that the ...