Monarch butterfly

Monarch butterflies are migrating through parts of the South and Midwest as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeks public comment on a proposal to list them as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

Tennessee’s Department of Transportation announced the launch Tuesday of a new program aimed at restoring and preserving the habitats of monarch butterflies and other pollinators.

A monarch butterfly tagged in Kentucky flew more than 1,600 miles from Perryville, Kentucky to Michoacán, Mexico.

Around October every year, a great orange migration of monarch butterflies moves from all over the United States east of the Rocky Mountains to the oyamel…