Monarch butterflies will be moving through the Texas Funnel soon, but in the meantime, another orange-and-black butterfly has arrived in droves. The American Snout butterfly, Libytheana carinenta, has been moving up the IH-35 pollinator corridor, clogging windshields and car grills along the way. … Read More
Climate change and a copper mine challenge a smaller monarch butterfly migration… Read More
Migrating bats arriving two weeks early to Texas from Mexico. … Read More
The Texas Butterfly Ranch’s 2017 Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival Soars in San Antonio… Read More
Monarch butterfly conservation rock stars Chip Taylor of Monarch Watch and Elizabeth Howard of Journey North will join a “Butterflies without Borders” panel discussion on the Monarch Butterfly Migration and Our Changing Climate in San Antonio. … Read More
If I ever pulled up to our Llano River ranch road to find a work crew, heavy machinery, pink flagged survey stakes, and trees slashed to the ground, I’d likely grab my husband’s shotgun. But Marianna Treviño Wright, director of … Read More
Stressed Monarch butterflies head our way as Mexican scientists try to move their overwintering forest.… Read More
Officials in Mexico announced Wednesday that the population of migrating Monarch butterflies dropped 27% this season, marking a setback in two consecutive years of growth from the historic low of 2014. A freak sleet storm gets the blame. Just last year, … Read More
What to do with late season butterflies when the weather turns cold.… Read More
Contrarian Dr. Anurag Agrawal dared to suggest that the focus on milkweed in Monarch butterfly conservation might be misplaced.… Read More