It’s also home to the state’s only “Monarch City.” Monarch City USA, an environmental group dedicated to preserving the ...

What Does an American Lady Butterfly Look Like? The American lady butterfly has wings that show a mixed pattern of mostly orange from above, including a small white spot within the orange. Forewings ...

The monarch butterfly is a beautiful and colorful creature, but it takes time to reach this stage of its adult life.

A few summers ago, I was walking my dog in a pasture near my house when a butterfly landed on my bare leg. It was a ...

Monarch butterflies cannot fly at temperatures below 55 degrees. Instead, they huddle together in orange and black clusters in the trees until the air warms again.

Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) of North America are making a miraculous comeback despite global warming, habitat destruction and drought. In winter 2021, Western monarchs overwintering in ...

That’s fewer than 15% of the insects recorded several years ago, when 200,000 to 300,000 of the orange and black butterflies flew to coastal California, clustering and clumping on trees.

This is prime time for Monarch butterflies, whose 1,800-mile round-trip migration path flutter along the West Coast each winter from Mendocino to San Diego. The graceful orange and black ...

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A monarch butterfly sits on a leaf at the Rosario Sanctuary in the Ocampo municipality, Michoacan state, Mexico, on Feb. 11, 2022. Claudio Cruz/AFP/Getty Images ...

Monarch butterflies are passing through Richardson as they migrate from Mexico to the northern United States and Canada. The orange and black pollinators are expected to appear in butterfly ...