Minnesota's state butterfly is scarce again this summer, a victim of two bad weather years in a row and the decline of caterpillar-sustaining milkweed in the landscape, experts say. Counts of ...

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Minnesota Zoo butterfly conservation biologist Erik Runquist runs after a Dakota skipper on a native prairie near Moorhead, Minn., on June 28. He's part of a team working to save the threatened ...

Thousands of monarch butterflies are making their annual arrival in Minnesota — one of the final destinations on the insects’ migration from Mexico. Fewer of the beloved butterflies are ...

A butterfly species once common on Minnesota’s prairie is fluttering again over native flowers and grasses. Hundreds of endangered Dakota skipper butterflies were re-introduced recently to ...

22% of butterflies in U.S. disappeared in 2 decades, ... Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called a special election in late April for the Brainerd Lakes-area seat vacated by former GOP state Sen. Justin ...

BYRON — Monarch butterflies are Minnesota’s state insect and Oxbow Park and Zollman Zoo in Byron is tagging the monarchs they catch with a sticker and teaching the community about it. Oxbow ...

The official state butterfly since 2000, monarch butterflies are facing a major ecological threat, according to experts. Local, Western populations of monarchs have declined by around 30% compared to ...

A monarch butterfly on a purple coneflower in Moorhead, Minn., on July 29. A new artificial intelligence program will measure pollinator habitat in Minnesota and elsewhere.

While Emilie Snell-Rood was in Florida, she couldn’t resist trekking out to the mangroves to catch butterflies. She knew she could find a specimen needed for a study she was conducting; her research ...

MOORHEAD, Minn. — Erik Runquist saw it for a moment. Then it was gone. Walking a tract of Nature Conservancy-owned prairie outside Moorhead, Runquist caught a glimpse of a Dakota skipper, a ...