Thanks to the fact that the Zion-Benton High School athletic teams are known as the Zee-Bees, the festival got its current name.

The 83-year-old was behind Illinois legislation to create Monarch Month. May is the perfect time for gardeners to add the butterfly's favorite plant to their arsenal, she said.

Residents of a WA town hope a balance can be struck so they can keep an "abundance" of monarch butterflies but not the ...

Thousands of monarch butterflies have taken over the Australian town of Nannup, lounging on the tulips, humming around the bottlebrush-a butterfly swarm has invaded a rural Australian town, ...

As July sunlight pokes through the trees, a butterfly egg rests gently in Wojciech Poreba’s palm as he sifts through milkweed leaves at Hamlet Park in Cottage Grove. At age 25, Poreba has four ...

The Public Library’s Word Garden was particularly busy Friday morning as a crowd of about 60 people gathered to watch the ...

The monarch butterfly is most renowned for its yearly odyssey. Some will travel up to 3,000 miles during their two-way winter journey.

The monarch butterfly is much beloved, but its numbers have dropped dramatically. On Dec. 10, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed protecting the monarch under the Endangered Species Act.

Monarch butterflies, known for migrating thousands of miles (km) across North America, have experienced a decades-long U.S. population decline due to habitat loss caused by human activities such ...

Monarch butterflies from Canada stop to rest in Wendy Park on their way to Mexico, on Sept. 12, 2023, in Cleveland, Ohio. Sue Ogrocki / AP ...