Citizen scientist Lorraine Kells finds small monarch butterfly eggs on milkweed in the monarch waystation near the Chicago Park District storehouse on Aug. 7, 2024. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune) ...

Monarch butterfly on a milkweed flower. ... Klinger was a co-author of a 2019 study led by Field Museum scientists that showed that even “concrete jungles” have room for milkweed plants, ...

Monarchs have been in decline for 20 years, spurring conservation efforts by scientists and everyday people, who grow milkweed in gardens, fields and parkways.

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 butterflies migrate through ... She says the house has served more than 4,000 children on field trips ... He says much of the data used in the study was gathered by citizen scientists.

LYNCHBURG Every year, billions of honey-orange monarch butterflies across North America begin a thousands-mile-long journey. The phenomenon fascinates scientists worldwide, including Nelson County ...

Aug. 13 (UPI) --Scientists in North Dakota announced Tuesday they are prepared to repopulate the iconic orange and black monarch butterfly, which has been classified an endangered species in North ...

But loss of summer milkweed habitat, of which caterpillars are 100 percent reliant, continues to be the most significant cause of monarch butterfly population declines. That’s where you come in.

Monarch butterflies, with their striking orange and black wings, ... a lead conservation ecologist at the Field Museum's Keller Science Action Center and a co-author of the paper. ...

Kells, 79, a retired teacher, continued monitoring her milkweed after the Field Museum study ended. She now contributes data to the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project.. She has 25 stalks of milkweed ...