On December 12, 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) published its proposal in the Federal Register to list the Monarch Butterfly ...

Will protecting monarch butterflies under the Endangered Species Act improve their chance of surviving? Not necessarily, 2 ...

Ventura County residents love watching the annual migration of monarch butterflies at locations the charismatic insects ...

Conservationists hope including monarch butterflies on the threatened species list will make it easier to protect their ...

The Center for Biological Diversity and Endangered Habitats League petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission today ...

Now, US officials have announced a decision to extend federal protections to the species, which is threatened by human-caused ...

Butterfly and moth wing color variations, long attributed to the cortex gene, are actually controlled by a microRNA, mir-193, which represses pigmentation genes. This discovery, conserved across ...

Milkweed once commonly grew in rural areas across the nation but new herbicides, development and overall loss of habitat have ...

People and farmers could continue to remove milkweed, a key food source for monarch caterpillars, from their gardens, ...

Webs on the leaves and greenish-yellow caterpillars are likely to be the first sign of attack. The caterpillars are 1.5-2cm long. You may also find pale-yellow, flat box caterpillar eggs on the ...

It’s that time of year again. Fall migration is essentially over and, while we’ll miss most of the colorful bird species we ...