For the first time in California, citizen scientists can join the effort to track monarch butterflies thanks to Blu+, a new ...

Van der Heide got her start at Cal Poly, tagging monarchs by numbering their wings in Sharpie and trying to find them later ...

We have just learned that the iconic monarch butterfly may be placed on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s endangered species list. The significant decline in the numbers of this beloved species, ...

Thousands of monarch butterflies make their way to the Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove every year to winter in the towering eucalyptus trees. It’s a tourist-friendly spectacle that features ...

SANCTUARIES AND MEMORIALS. DONNA THOMPSON SAYS THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY MAY BE ENDANGERED BUT NOT IN HER GARDEN. SHE HAS 600 EGGS THAT SHE RAISES FROM CATERPILLARS TO CHRYSALIS THEN TO BEAUTIFUL MONARCH ...

By Claudia Steiner The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) population has plummeted by 80% to 95% since the 1990s, depending ...

A sign welcomes people into the Ellwood Monarch Butterfly Grove. A management plan lays out the work the city needs to do to improve the butterfly habitat, reduce wildfire risk and improve public ...

pacific Grove Museum of Natural History is out doing its annual monarch butterfly count. And there's good news. They are seeing thousands more than last year. Let's take a look. So the importance of ...

Editor’s note: The Wild is all about featuring a variety of exciting voices from SoCal’s outdoors scene. For the next several weeks, that voice will belong to Times staff writer Lila Seidman. A native ...

Q. My husband is into butterflies, and he mentions all books on the topic that you described in the Monarch and Milkweed Class he attended last year. The books sound ...

This is not a drill. California is poised to lose the Western monarch butterfly and its mysterious annual migration from the continent’s Western regions to the coastal areas between Baja and Mendocino ...