Monarch Butterflies

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is determining whether to list the species as threatened or endangered. The listing would bring new regulatory protections to the species and its habitat. Depending on how the protections are written, however, listing could also complicate local monarch protection and propagation efforts.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature added the migrating monarch butterfly for to its "red list" of threatened species and categorized it as "endangered" — two steps from extinct.

The annual winter monarch butterfly migration, which has seen steep declines in recent years, seems to be making a comeback. Biologists are encouraged and confused by the trend.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said other species are "higher priority" for listing as threatened or endangered.

Lee esta historia en español. The last couple weeks you might have noticed a large number of small butterflies drifting through Central Texas. The view…

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Go outside. Look up. If you're in Central Texas, you're in a hotspot for monarch butterfly watching.Monarch butterflies are moving south through Austin…

The annual return of the monarch butterfly is underway. They started showing up in Austin about a week ago, according to the crowdsourced online tracker…

Take a look around the next time you’re outside and you might see wings of orange and black fluttering in the sky.Monarch butterflies are making their way…