On the slopes of a volcano in central Mexico, biologist Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero and his team envision a climate refuge for oyamel fir trees and the monarch butterflies that depend on them.
The once ubiquitous monarch butterfly, a fixture of the Texas fall landscape and a crucial component of our food chain, is in a troubling decline. The National Wildlife Federation has observed a ...
NAIROBI—Looking for a good home: 4.2 million butterflies. Steve Collins started collecting butterflies at age 5 on his family’s coffee farm on the flanks of Mount Elgon. He’s 74 now ...
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Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — Monarch butterflies are at risk of becoming an endangered species. Right now, volunteers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are helping with ...
ATHENS -- With vigorous debate surrounding the health of the monarch butterfly, new research from the University of Georgia may have answered the biggest question plaguing butterfly researchers.
Every year, millions of monarch butterflies embark on a remarkable journey, traveling thousands of miles from their breeding grounds in the United States and Canada to their wintering habitats in ...
But the fire seemed to happen at just the right time to coax a second flowering, one that is likely to line up with the return migration of the monarch butterflies south to ... run counter to the ...
The planting of non-native milkweeds along the migration path has resulted in the rise of a parasite called Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (OE), which infects and debilitates monarch butterflies.
Every year, millions (but perhaps billions) of monarch butterflies make their autumnal journey to the oyamel fir forests and hilly terrain of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve northwest of ...
You can see them again on their path back up in spring. Texas Parks and Wildlife outlines the Monarch butterfly migration in both fall and spring throughout North America. Courtesy photo by Texas ...