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Wildlife biologists there are helping make their land a more comfortable home for monarch butterflies. Each year, the butterflies migrate 2,000 miles across North America, many stopping in Colorado.

Monarch butterflies are at risk across North America. You can help them. Here's how to build a butterfly habitat in your yard and other monarch facts.

Milkweed, of course, is the only food that monarch caterpillars eat, making it crucial for their survival. But here we come to the struggle between creating habitat and pretty landscapes in our yards.

During their passage through Mexico, monarch butterflies depend on the shelter of endangered trees—so this scientist is leading a huge experiment to build them a new winter habitat.

One of the leading research nonprofits on monarch butterflies out of the University of Kansas, Monarch Watch, led by its director and professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary ...

Monarch butterflies are in danger of extinction. Your yard can save them. | Opinion By any measure, the revival of the bald eagle stands as one of the great environmental triumphs in conservation ...

Millions of western monarch butterflies once visited Oregon and other Western states each spring to drink flower nectar, pollinate plants and lay their eggs after wintering in forests in coastal ...

Monarch butterflies from Canada stop to rest in Wendy Park on their way to Mexico, Sept. 12, 2023, in Cleveland. Credit: AP/Sue Ogrocki By The Associated Press Updated December 10, 2024 ...

Monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast are rebounding for the second year in a row, after 2020 saw levels that put the insects closer to extinction.

Milkweed, of course, is the only food that monarch caterpillars eat, making it crucial for their survival. But here we come to the struggle between creating habitat and pretty landscapes in our yards.