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.

Her love for the butterfly ... as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The agency’s Species Status Assessment from December found the probability of extinction for eastern monarch ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to add the butterfly ... endangered species. A threatened listing allows for exceptions to those protections. In the monarch’s case, the proposed listing ...

Monarchs are typically found in areas with a high number of nectar sources. While domestic plants are used, native flowers are preferred. Monarchs in the caterpillar stage rely exclusively on milkweed ...

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In December, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed ... s most recent species status assessment. Miller criticized the Biden administration’s effort to label the monarch butterfly ...

A threatened listing allows for exceptions to those protections. In the monarch’s case, the proposed ... a review of the the butterfly’s status at the end of 2014, concluding six years later that ...