The butterfly species you raised in your grade school classroom and fed milkweed was a monarch butterfly. “People love monarchs,” Vancouver native Jeff Hill said. That’s because, in addition to being ...

Because it tends to stay cool and wet, Western Washington is not a butterfly haven, lepidopterist Dr. Robert Michael Pyle said. “They are cold-blooded insects. They depend on the warmth of the sun to ...

Millions of western monarch butterflies once visited Oregon and other Western states each spring to drink flower nectar, pollinate plants and lay their eggs after wintering in forests in coastal ...

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its second-lowest mark in nearly three decades as pesticides, diminishing habitat and climate change ...

Monarch butterflies from the western United States have arrived in Santa Cruz and other parts of the California coast, ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Millions of western monarch butterflies once visited Oregon and other Western states each spring to drink flower nectar, pollinate plants and lay their eggs after wintering in ...

Millions of western monarch butterflies once visited Oregon and other Western states each spring to drink flower nectar, pollinate plants and lay their eggs after wintering in forests in coastal ...