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Federal wildlife officials on Tuesday moved to add the monarch butterfly to its endangered species roster, citing decades of steep population decline of the striking black-and-orange insect.
Monarch butterflies, known for migrating thousands of miles (km) across North America, have experienced a decades-long U.S. population decline due to habitat loss caused by human activities such ...
On December 12, 2024, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) published in the Federal Register a proposed rule that would list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species and would designate the butterfly's critical habitat in accordance with the provisions of the Endangered Species Act. The FWS estimated in the proposed rule that ...
The monarch butterfly or ... In both caterpillar and butterfly form, ... the USFWS published in the Federal Register a proposed rule that would list the ...
A monarch butterfly feeding on milkweed. (Shutterstock) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is pushing for added protections for the monarch butterfly after seeing a population decline of about 80%.
Monarch butterfly (state butterfly) Danaus plexippus: 1987 [57] Virginia: Eastern tiger swallowtail: Papilio glaucus [58] Washington: Green darner dragonfly: Anax junius: 1997 [59] West Virginia: European honey bee (state insect) Apis mellifera: 2002 [60] Monarch butterfly (state butterfly) Danaus plexippus: 1995 [61] Wisconsin: European honey ...
The environmental activist Robert Kennedy has endorsed the petition but has said the designation should be 'threatened', not 'endangered'. Critics state monarchs are not threatened and do not need Federal protection. Listing the monarch could divert funding take attention away from rarer species at greater risk of extinction.
Few insects are as beloved as the monarch butterfly. These fascinating creatures are beautiful, boldly colored and surprisingly strong — the North American monarch migrating thousands of miles ...