Climate change and industrial agriculture have decimated the western monarch butterfly’s crucial food source, threatening the ...

Monarchs traveled to a remote part of Mexico, a journey they've made for thousands of years, and wintered there. Now tens of ...

The annual migration of monarch butterflies is one of science's great mysteries: millions of monarchs know the correct path ...

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The migratory monarch butterfly has a lifespan of two to six weeks, though the butterflies born at the end of the summer live eight to nine months in order to make the journey south and spend the ...

In 2022, the WWF reported the eastern migratory monarch butterfly population has decreased by more than 80% over the last three decades. UGA research scientist Andy Davis said in an October article ...