FORT CAVAZOS, Texas — Tall spikes of deep purple liatris blooms sway in the breeze of a training area. Among the flowers, volunteers clad in bright safety vests are scattered, their eyes sharp and ...

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 ...

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — Monarch butterflies are at risk of becoming an endangered species. Right now, volunteers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are helping with conservation ...

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

GRAPEVINE, Texas (Reuters) - It is a delicate process but for Gayle Hall it is a labor of love: tagging monarch butterflies as part of a program to monitor the movements of one of nature's most ...

The Rock County Conservationists will host a program on tagging monarch butterflies from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, at the home of Larry and Emily Scheunemann. As summer ends, monarchs start their ...

Mitchell County Conservation Board Naturalist Chelsea Ewen Rowcliffe has been raising, and tagging monarchs for over nine years. The tagging process is simple, fun, and greatly benefits the butterfly ...

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 ...