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, ...

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

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 ...

Biologists have attached tiny trackers to five of Goleta’s beloved monarch butterflies to track behavior, for the first time ever along the Central ...

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 ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing the monarch butterfly as a threatened species. Here's what happens ...

Monarch butterflies inspire awe through migrations that span thousands of miles across North America—a cycle repeated ...

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 ...

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 ...