A Monarch butterfly born in Canada will fly more than 3,000 miles to Mexico, across land it has never seen. Its journey is filled with peril, many never make it and those that do will never return.
Madison Kuhle, 5, Lawrence, poses as a butterfly for her father at the Monarch Watch open house Saturday at Foley Hall on Kansas University's campus. Maxx Marshall, 4, Lawrence, gets an up-close ...
The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in California this winter, a foreboding sign for the future of the beloved ...
The monarch butterfly was first petitioned to be listed under the federal Endangered Species Act in 2014, but that effort was shelved due to more urgent population priorities.