I recently heard on KUNR that monarch butterflies may soon be listed as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Western monarchs are even more at risk than the eastern ones, with a ...

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Their multi-month and multigenerational migration north of about 3,000 miles begins in February or March. Each monarch lives only between two and six weeks. During migration, the female monarch mates, ...