Picture yourself in a forest surrounded by a sea of fluttering orange, black, and white wings. The air is filled with the gentle rustle of millions of monarch butterflies. This is the amazing sight ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The first monarch butterflies have appeared in the mountaintop forests of central Mexico where they spend the winter, Mexico’s Environment Department said Saturday. The first ...

Monarch butterflies are collected in a net to be tested for the ophroyocystis elektroscirrha parasite that inhibits their flight, at El Capulin reserve, near Zitacuaro, Mexico. Every year, millions of ...

MEXICO CITY – The number of monarch butterflies wintering in the mountains west of Mexico City rebounded this year, doubling the area they covered in 2024 despite the stresses of climate change and ...

Many birders have a strong secondary interest in butterflies. This is understandable, considering that butterflies are found in the company of birds, are equally colorful and are often mistaken as ...

Logging threatens existence of one of the greatest wonders of the world. CONTEPEC, Mexico, Feb. 18, 2009— -- When the sun comes out in the mountains of central Mexico, hundreds of millions of ...

The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) population has plummeted by 80% to 95% since the 1990s, depending on the region and monitoring method. A major cause of the species’ decline is deforestation ...

VINTON, Iowa - How can a tiny insect that weighs less than a gram fly all the way to Mexico from Iowa and points even farther North? How can they arrive at a destination they have never been to before ...