Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish ...

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States dropped dramatically this year even as ...

it can find the exact overwintering groves its ancestors used, probably using magnetism and sunlight to help it navigate. Monarch caterpillars eat 200 times their weight in milkweed and can devour a ...

Much of California’s Habitat for the migratory Monarch butterfly is gone. Wild fires have decimated groves of trees and plants where the Western Monarch winters. The typical flight plan of the Monarch ...

The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in ...

The number of monarch butterflies spending winter in the western U.S. dropped dramatically this year, despite moves to extend ...

In 2023, more than 16,000 butterflies were counted at one local grove. The most recent count was a tiny fraction of that.