With a flutter and flap of wings, monarch butterflies soar through the air and float from flower to flower at the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa. Everyone in the Ivey-Caldwell family gives ...

A volunteer gives instructions on how to properly hold a monarch butterfly at the Baker Wetlands on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025.

A monarch butterfly with a tag on its wing perches on a flower head at Monarch Watch's butterfly tagging event at the Baker Wetlands on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. Monarch Watch is contributing to a ...

Monarch butterflies travel hundreds and even thousands of miles in their migration to Mexico. Volunteer efforts to tag the butterflies have helped scientists learn more about their journey. With a ...

BYRON — Monarch butterflies are Minnesota’s state insect and Oxbow Park and Zollman Zoo in Byron is tagging the monarchs they catch with a sticker and teaching the community about it. Oxbow Park and ...

It’s a sunny July afternoon, and Grayslake neighbors Annie Lawson and Heather Bauer are standing at the side of Lawson’s home, carefully going through her garden of milkweed plants. Lawson points at ...