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

Monarch butterflies in the western U.S. have dropped to just 9,119 this year. In 2023, the count was 233,394, meaning a 96% decline.

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

Monarchs rely on milkweed as the sole host plant for their caterpillars, and without it, their populations struggle to thrive ...

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 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking steps to list monarch butterflies as threatened species and designate seven ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its ...

The monarch butterfly population spending the winter in the western United States has declined to its second-lowest level in nearly three decades.