This past December, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) proposed for the monarch butterfly to be added to the threatened species list, which would place the monarch under the protection of the ...

We take the graceful beauty of the monarch butterfly for granted. This iconic species undertakes one of the world’s greatest migrations from central Mexico to southern Canada and back again each year.

Dan Getman, a Kirksville-based master gardener, proudly watches as his grandchildren race to catch monarch butterflies on his ... gently attaching tiny stickers to their wings that will identify ...

Each year, monarch butterflies migrate from Canada and the United States to the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, a 562-square-kilometer UNESCO site in the forests of Michoacán and México state.

A lone Monarch butterfly at the Piedra Herrada butterfly sanctuary in Mexico. Late last year, just under the deadline, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took an important step toward putting the ...