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) ...

By Creating Habitats For Monarch Butterflies In Cities, Scientists Hope To Save Them As summer draws to a close, ... Derby Lewis and her colleagues at the Field Museum turned to their own city.

First, the bleak butterfly news: The population of monarchs passing the winter in Mexico appears to have fallen. Now, the good news for Illinois’ state insect: The Field Museum is trying to f… ...

The population, counted by citizen scientists at Monarch overwintering locations in southern California, dropped from around 300,000 three years ago to just 1,914 in 2020, leading to an increasing ...

Scientists crack secrets of the monarch butterfly's internal compass. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 04 / 160414143908.htm ...

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

A boom of monarch butterflies flooded California’s seaside towns, with more than 247,000 counted this season, according to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.

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, ...

Monarch butterflies love milkweed. ... but they will get that ugly stem on the other side of the field.” Using a model of monarch migrations that ... He started as a freelancer for the science ...

The monarch’s decline is part of a larger trend among dozens of butterfly species in the West, including creatures with names like field crescents, large marbles and Nevada skippers, said Matt ...

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. ...