Like its close relative the Monarch, the Queen is a poisonous species of butterfly, said to be quite bitter and distasteful.

They’re known as the “Viceroy” due to their remarkable similarities to the larger Monarch Butterfly. The easiest way to tell the difference between them is to look for a black horizontal line across ...

Monarch butterflies are well known, but have you noticed they're appearing less? The shrinking population is alarming.

Monarch butterflies are important culturally ... having a brush with complete collapse in 2020 — in 2022 the butterflies rebounded to 247,000, eliciting a collective sigh of relief from butterfly ...

The spring 2024 map for Eastern monarchs has been tracking the butterflies’ migration since late winter, with the ...

It’s thought that, even though monarch butterfly populations have dropped 84 percent in just the last two decades, more than a billion of the colorful insects still find their way home to a ...

But the count this year is dismal. At iconic monarch wintering sites in the city of Pacific Grove, volunteers didn’t see a single butterfly this winter. Other well-known locations, such as Pismo State ...

VERNON — Vernon is an entry point for monarch butterflies migrating north from their wintering ... The kids would watch them transform from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly over the span of a ...

Hoe ze hun overwinteringsplek terugvinden, blijft een mysterie. The Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve World Heritage property protects key overwintering sites for the monarch butterfly. The ...

Hundreds of monarch butterflies on a tree in the Mexican state of Michoacan. The annual butterfly count doesn’t calculate the individual number of butterflies, but rather the number of acres ...

Monarch butterflies are important culturally ... having a brush with complete collapse in 2020 — in 2022 the butterflies rebounded to 247,000, eliciting a collective sigh of relief from butterfly ...