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The flapping wings of millions of monarch butterflies at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Michoacán, Mexico, create a fluttering sound that Alfonso Alonso describes as “magical.” The ...

The community science initiative, known as the Western Monarch Count, is led by the Xerces Society, a conservation nonprofit ...

The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...

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

In recent years, the number of monarch butterflies has been declining, and researchers don’t know the exact cause.

For a second straight year, a low number of monarch butterflies have been counted at the popular Pismo State Beach Butterfly ...

The monarch butterfly migration is off to a tough start this season — with fewer butterflies than usual fluttering to the Pismo State Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove. As of Wednesday, California State ...

When animals are faced with extinction, they have three options: move, adapt, or die. Every year, the western monarch butterfly migrates from west of the Rocky Mountains to the coasts of California, ...