Explore every stage of the butterfly’s life cycle in vibrant close-up, from egg to adult. Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly is a 56-minute narrated film that unfolds along ...

Monarch butterflies travel up to 3,000 miles each fall to their wintering site in central Mexico, which was discovered by National Geographic grantee Fred A. Urquhart and his team in 1975.

Q. How can people at home help with the monarch butterfly population? A. Habitat loss is a contributing driver of monarch decline. Thus, helping provide resources to support the entire life cycle ...

Every year, millions of monarch butterflies fly up to 3,000 miles from southern Canada and the upper reaches of the United States to their wintering grounds in mountain forests outside Mexico City ...

The nonprofit National Geographic Society, working to conserve Earth’s resources, helped fund this article. A version of this story appears in the January 2024 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Few animals inspire as much devotion and study as the monarch butterfly. Its multigenerational, 3,000-mile migration from Canada to Mexico and back to the Gulf Coast states in the spring has long ...

Incredible Animal Journeys follows the the monarch butterfly on a multigenerational mission to give her great grandchildren the best start in life and premieres on November 19th on National ...

Migrating monarch butterflies are in "grave danger," according to a report that shows their colonies in Mexico now occupy the smallest area since records began in 1993.. The report is based on a ...