FOREST CITY | The Winnebago County Conservation Board's annual monarch tagging program will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 2, at the Thorpe Park shelterhouse. The tagging program is part of a larger ...

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

Rebecca Zerlin spent her Saturday afternoon catching butterflies at a registered Monarch Butterfly Waystation in the King William neighborhood as a part of a large-scale program to tag the migrating ...

WAVERLY - The grass is tall. The evening air heavy. The sticky weather and prickly things do little to discourage the hunters, three girls bent on catching a butterfly or two. Armed with nets, sisters ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Get Active in Nature program will be held at the Lime Creek Nature Center on at 4 p.m. on Aug. 26. “Tagging Monarch Butterflies” is the theme for this GAIN activity. Children and adults will enjoy ...

It may still be summer outside, but it is not too early to think about fall Monarch migration. In fact, the Monarch Blitz, a yearly event to engage and educate the public about monarchs, has just ...