BEAVER ISLAND, MI – Lauri Juday stooped down to inspect the leaves of a common milkweed plant and then shouted, “I’ve got one.” She was leading a group of student volunteers to find and collect ...

Last month, news headlines worldwide exclaimed that the monarch butterfly had been declared an endangered species by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. It was an alarming ...

Federal officials on Tuesday declared the monarch butterfly “a candidate” for threatened or endangered status, but said no action would be taken for several years because of the many other species ...

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature added the migratory monarch to its "red list" denoting it as "endangered," two steps from extinct, on Thursday, July 21. As a result, concern ...