Monarch Butterfly

The money will be allocated to the Roadside Monarch Habitat Fund, which is part of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

A group of 16 Illinois organizations and agencies have teamed up to help the monarch butterfly survive. For Earth Day, the team unveiled additional steps…

The decline of the monarch butterfly population has led researchers to look for reasons why. A popular theory is the loss of milkweed, the only plant on…

The Monarch butterfly population has dropped dramatically in recent years, and the federal government is now considering endangered species protection for…

Monarch butterflies are disappearing. Scientists agree that in the last 20 years, populations of the black and orange insect have been in precipitous…

The population of monarch butterflies has declined so dramatically in recent years that the iconic insect is being considered for the U.S. Fish and…

The environmental organization Center for Food Safety is blaming agriculture giant Monsanto for declining numbers of monarch butterflies.A new report…

Urbana resident Alex Wild kept an eye out for monarch butterflies last year. He was alarmed by what he saw. Or rather, what he didn’t see.“I saw two the…