Rebecca Zerlin spent her Saturday afternoon catching butterflies at a registered Monarch Butterfly Waystation in the King William neighborhood as a part of a large-scale program to tag the migrating ...

A volunteer gives instructions on how to properly hold a monarch butterfly at the Baker Wetlands on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025.

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas — Tall spikes of deep purple liatris blooms sway in the breeze of a training area. Among the flowers, volunteers clad in bright safety vests are scattered, their eyes sharp and ...

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — Monarch butterflies are at risk of becoming an endangered species. Right now, volunteers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are helping with conservation ...

A monarch butterfly with a tag on its wing perches on a flower head at Monarch Watch's butterfly tagging event at the Baker Wetlands on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. Monarch Watch is contributing to a ...

A Get Active in Nature program will be held at the Lime Creek Nature Center on at 4 p.m. on Aug. 26. “Tagging Monarch Butterflies” is the theme for this GAIN activity. Children and adults will enjoy ...

WAVERLY - The grass is tall. The evening air heavy. The sticky weather and prickly things do little to discourage the hunters, three girls bent on catching a butterfly or two. Armed with nets, sisters ...

Cynthia Zhang, a rising junior at Great Neck South High School, received a $2,000 grant from the True Blue Fellowship, an international Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Program that engages youth in ...

Before National Geographic published its famous August 1976 cover story detailing the search for the monarch butterfly’s wintering grounds, nobody knew where these strikingly beautiful creatures ...

CHICAGO — An expert has confirmed what backyard gardeners and amateur naturalists have been saying for weeks: There are fewer monarch butterflies in Illinois this summer. At the national Monarch Larva ...