DENVER, Colorado — When artist Juls Mendoza puts brush to canvas, every stroke carries meaning. Throughout his many years of professional work, there is one image his brush returns to again and again: ...

• Seventeen Wisconsin lawmakers and former state treasurer Jack Voight support legislation to make the monarch butterfly the state's official butterfly • Monarch butterfly populations have plummeted ...

Why the monarch butterfly has such cultural meaning for the Mexican community. Monarch butterflies may be moving toward federally protected status. One local resident is taking it upon herself to help ...

Butterflies have long been believed to represent transformation and change, thanks to the stunning metamorphosis they must go through to go from caterpillar to the winged pollinator so many of us ...

If it feels like there are fewer bugs now than there were decades ago, it’s not just nostalgia. Scientists estimate that, due to factors such as pesticide use, habitat loss, and climate change, as ...

The Monarch butterfly (Danaus Plexippus) is a milkweed butterfly in the family of Nymphalidae. It is possibly the best known butterfly of North America. And the Monarch is the state insect of Illinois ...

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 ...