Monarch butterflies, known for their distinctive ... according to Monarch Joint Venture, a group that works to protect monarchs. Pesticides have contaminated much of the remaining plants ...

PISMO BEACH, Calif. – On Thursday, invertebrate conservation group the Xerxes Society released the results of their 28th annual Western Monarch Butterfly Count and recorded the second lowest ...

Monarch butterflies, known for their distinctive ... according to Monarch Joint Venture, a group that works to protect monarchs. Pesticides have contaminated much of the remaining plants ...

SAN DIEGO — U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing monarch butterflies as a threatened species and has considered some possibly contradictory ways to protect them, Nicholas Storer ...

For the past three years, more than 200,000 western monarch butterflies spent their winters ... a nonprofit environmental group, tallied just 9,119 western monarchs — a dramatic 95% plunge ...

SANTA CRUZ — Conservationists are concerned that western monarch butterflies may be teetering on the brink of collapse as the latest Western Monarch Count reveals a devastating decline.

The iconic monarch butterfly is declining across North America. You can help make a difference by providing the species with its food plant: milkweed. A monarch butterfly gliding over a field on ...