Monarch butterflies took center stage at Lake Katherine Nature Center in Palos Heights, where a festival celebrated their migration.

The annual Monarch Butterfly Celebration will take flight Friday, Sept. 12, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Butterfly Garden in Spring Hill Cemetery Park and Arboretum.

For the last nine years, the Nature Center of Cape May has celebrated this improbable migration with the annual Monarch Festival.

Eventual winner William Robinson, front, competes in the Monarch Festival and Race at Millennium Park in Peterborough on ...

What: Take a self-guided tour of the monarch butterfly sculptures on the bluffs and the 50-foot high sunflower silos on the ...

The western monarch butterfly population reached its highest number since the year 2000, with more than 335,000 butterflies counted during the annual Thanksgiving Western Monarch Count in California ...

These are all unmistakable signs that the monarch butterfly’s migration through Pennsylvania has begun! Even those who aren’t ...

MADISON, Wis. — U.S. wildlife officials announced a decision Tuesday to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies after years of warnings from environmentalists that populations are shrinking ...