It’s a sunny July afternoon, and Grayslake neighbors Annie Lawson and Heather Bauer are standing at the side of Lawson’s home, carefully going through her garden of milkweed plants. Lawson points at ...

For an entire season, Emily Carter transformed a small corner of her backyard into a safe place for monarch butterflies.

Learn which monarch butterfly predators and parasites pose a real threat to their survival, and which are part of the natural ...

CLARENCE, N.Y. — This Saturday at Bidwell Park in Buffalo, a butterfly release will entertain the young and old alike. But the mission behind the release is to resonate a message of environmentalism, ...

We can expect the monarch butterflies to arrive in San Antonio on their migration route from Canada to their wintering grounds near Mexico City any time now. If milkweed plants are available, some ...

Even with that advantage, the creator said gardeners should not treat common milkweed as the only way to support monarchs.  The gardener warned that common milkweed can be hard to contain, saying it ...

With vigorous debate surrounding the health of the monarch butterfly, new research from the University of Georgia may have answered the biggest question plaguing butterfly researchers. Why are the ...

From 2003 to 2019, amateur butterfly enthusiast Harlan Radcliff spent his lunch breaks observing butterflies on the grounds of the Camp Dodge military installation in central Iowa. Diane Debinski, ...

Monarch butterflies are among the most beloved insects in North America. They are brightly colored and unique, both as caterpillars and later as mature insects. Monarchs are found in every U.S. state ...

Monarch butterflies are among the most beloved insects in North America. They are brightly colored and unique, both as caterpillars and later as mature insects. Monarchs are found in every U.S. state ...