FARGO — Families had a chance to learn about monarch butterflies on Wednesday night, Aug. 20, as they began their migration. Urban Plains Park hosted a monarch butterfly tagging event Wednesday.

A monarch butterfly was fluttering inside a large net while Larry Hoffman tried to gently grab hold of its wings. Hoffman, 77, grabbed the butterfly’s body, turned it over in his hands and placed a ...

A monarch butterfly carrying a tiny tag developed by Cellular Tracking Technologies at the Cape May Point Arts and Science Center in Cape May Point, N.J., Nov. 12, 2025. Scientists used tiny new ...

Amid the eucalyptus groves at Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz, local bug enthusiast Sasha Hernandez squinted through the draping green leaves, searching for flashes of black and orange — the ...

Rebecca Zerlin spent her Saturday afternoon catching butterflies at a registered Monarch Butterfly Waystation in the King William neighborhood as a part of a large-scale program to tag the migrating ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Nahant Marsh Education Center will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its Monarch Party the first weekend in September. Visitors will get the chance to help scientists track the ...

The Monarch Monitoring Project of New Jersey Audubon’s Cape May Bird Observatory on Sunday started its 30th year of counting and tagging migrating monarch butterflies, which have slowly been building ...

GOLETA, Calif. (KEYT) – Ultra-light tracking tags are being deployed for the first time locally on Western Monarch butterflies to monitor how and where these iconic creatures migrate. The tracking ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Mary Ann Steeb loves her garden. “We just like to take care of the yard and the flowers and so we love the butterflies,” she said. Every day, she tends to her plants and carefully ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on April 20, 2025. The original video can be viewed here. Earlier this year we reported on one of the most remarkable and mysterious migrations in ...

Before National Geographic published its famous August 1976 cover story detailing the search for the monarch butterfly’s wintering grounds, nobody knew where these strikingly beautiful creatures ...

MANKATO — The crisp 53-degree air outside the Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota Saturday morning reinforced the sense that it might be time to fly to warmer climates. “Everybody say ‘Goodbye ...