Bayer Hawaii, in partnership with Sharing the Butterfly Experience, will be giving away 30 Monarch Butterfly Kits at the 2025 Maui AgFest & 4-H Livestock Fair on May 31 at the War Memorial Complex ...

Melita halts monarch butterfly rearing kits By: Miranda Leybourne Local Journalism Initiative Posted: 2:00 AM CDT Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022 Last Modified: 5:11 PM CDT Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022 ...

Since the show’s first episode, though, the monarch butterfly’s very existence has been thrown into peril. The species’ population has been reduced by 80-90 percent in the last 30 years.

Newly released monarch butterflies, raised from a kit at home, land on garden flowers for the first time, Aug. 10, 2022 in Chatham, New Hampshire. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images, FILE ...

Monarch butterflies with more white spots on their mostly orange-and-black wings are more successful at long-distance migration. Some scientists think the spots may affect airflow around their wings.

The monarch butterfly is widely recognized and widely dispersed across North America and it's in trouble. Federal officials decide soon whether it gets protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Monarch butterfly populations are crashing — but we can choose to do something about it A species once numbering in the millions has reached 5% of its population in the '80s.

Inside the monarch butterfly migration mystery: flying to Mexico from Canada, the U.S. 12:52 After flying some 3,000 miles from the northern U.S. and Canada to a remote forest in Central Mexico ...

A Monarch butterfly feeds on a bloom at the Independence Park Botanical Gardens, Thursday, November 7, 2024, in Baton Rouge, La.

File photo from June 2020. The monarch butterfly may receive the threatened status under the Endangered Species Act. U.S. Fish and Wildlife is taking public comment until March on the proposed ...