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The iconic black, orange and white monarch butterfly finds a welcome home in San Diego gardens. Besides being a beautiful addition to your garden, it’s an important pollinator. Creating a monarch ...

Milkweed is the host plant for butterfly enthusiasts who want to attract monarch butterflies. When the monarch discovers the milkweed, she lays her eggs on it. Once the eggs hatch, the small ...

It is Monarch migration time! The fifth generation is beginning their long trip to their Mexican overwintering grounds in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve on the border of Michoacán and State ...

For years, home gardeners have been told to do one thing to save monarch butterflies: plant milkweed, the only plant monarch caterpillars eat. And for years, that’s what Linda Barber Auld, known as ...

Explore the parasite Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (OE) and ways to help monarch butterflies. Explore the parasite Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (OE) and ways to help monarch butterflies.

Rachel Grella performed a study with Monarch butterflies and Milkweed density. Photo by John Barnard/Pexels. Rachel Grella, a seventh-semester University of Connecticut ecology and evolutionary ...

DALLAS — Fall is officially here in Texas, and as the leaves turn color, something else orange will be visible in nature: the monarch butterfly. During the fall season, monarch butterflies will ...

Every year, swarms of majestic monarch butterflies take wing in a massive autumn migration from the northern United States to a small region near Mexico City — except for a wayward population that ...

Discover how the misguided planting of tropical milkweed affects monarch butterflies migration and their endangered species status. Every year, millions of monarchs migrate from their summer breeding ...

Where did all the monarch butterflies go? Probably the most universally recognized butterfly in the world is the monarch (Danaus plexippus). The beauty of its wings in striking shades of oranges with ...