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NEW YORK — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is encouraging wildlife enthusiasts to help Monarch butterflies on their yearly flight south to warmer climates. In New York, ...

SAN ANTONIO — If you've lived in Texas for a while, you know the end of September brings to spectacular migration of the monarch butterfly. Monarch butterflies in the wild can cannot survive a cold ...

My friend Diana, who has a degree in wildlife management, got into raising monarch butterflies back in 2020. She knew the statistics on the dwindling numbers of these gorgeous/iconic butterflies, did ...

My life took an unexpected turn a week and a half ago when a friend of mine ended up having an unplanned hip replacement. Would I take care of her monarch butterfly nursery while she was laid up? Of ...

Young children are often taught that caterpillars form a chrysalis and transform into butterflies. However, the exact details of metamorphosis aren’t always clarified due to the complicated biological ...

If you saw fewer monarch butterflies this summer, there may be a good reason for it. Last winter, the group Monarch Watch recorded the second lowest number of monarchs in their cold-season refuges in ...

VERGAS, Minn. — A rural Vergas, Minnesota, boy has the best summer story ever, ahead of returning back to school in Perham. The second grader has spent several weeks raising and releasing monarch ...

PISMO BEACH, Calif. – From a distance, trees draped in monarch butterflies would glow orange and flutter in the sunlight. In the 1980s, overwintering sites along the California coast would attract ...

Two dozen caterpillars are in the middle of transitioning into monarch butterflies at the Kinney Memorial Library in the town of Hartwick. Barbara Potter, the library director, said Wednesday, Sept. 3 ...

Lehigh Valley residents may be noticing streaks of black and orange flitting through their back yards in recent days. The “king” of the Lepidoptera family, the monarch butterfly, is passing through ...

As July sunlight pokes through the trees, a butterfly egg rests gently in Wojciech Poreba’s palm as he sifts through milkweed leaves at Hamlet Park in Cottage Grove. At age 25, Poreba has four years ...