In the wild only 2%-10% of the eggs laid will become mature butterflies. Those numbers can improve to 80%-95% if we provide safe places away from their predators for them to feed and pupate. The ...

Over the past few weeks, Iola has served as host to hundreds — or maybe thousands? — of visitors passing through town.

Lehigh Valley residents may be noticing streaks of black and orange flitting through their back yards in recent days. The “king” of the Lepidoptera family, the monarch butterfly, is passing through ...

BAGLEY, Minn. -- The board of Clearwater Health Services, the county-owned hospital here, with two clinics and an ambulance service, decided Tuesday to send an official notice of default to Cocoon ...

BAGLEY, Minn. -- After a full day of meetings by two boards filled with angry questions and comments from as many as 50 people filling the room, the Clearwater County Commission voted 3 to 1 to grant ...

Two managers at a San Diego construction project were trying to boost the morale of workers in the middle of the COVID pandemic. In this StoryCorps, hear how some monarch butterflies helped. It's ...

A year ago this month, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced that North America’s Monarch Butterfly has been added to IUCN’s Red List of Endangered Species. As ...

The monarch butterfly is Illinois' state insect and has held that distinction for 50 years — having been suggested for the honor by third grade classes in Decatur in 1975. But the butterfly is also in ...