For years, planting milkweed was the go-to way to help monarchs. Now, scientists say it may be fueling a parasite that’s ...

Texas' official state insect is on its way from Canada to Mexico — and you may be just in time to witness the remarkable ...

Spooky season is in full swing over in Missouri. A biologist recently spotted and photographed a super rare white monarch ...

As KTLA News reported, the Sweetbriar Nature Center saved the monarch butterfly after someone brought it into its Smithtown, ...

Butterfly fans, take a breath. I know it's officially spring and we're all pounding on nursery doors, anxious to plant some California native milkweed to help the endangered Western monarch butterfly ...

We have conducted a number of monarch butterfly and milkweed classes over the last three years. The classes hosted over 450 attendees and distributed 900 milkweed seeded containers to gardeners in the ...

Some milkweed species are attractive additions to home landscapes, and monarch butterflies like them too. Here are some tips from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach horticulturists on ...

Kay MacNeil, of Frankfort, describes herself as “a seriously deranged lover of caterpillars and butterflies.” As a child, she came down with a terrible rash on her arms. Her family physician ...

BUTTE CITY — River Partners and allies planted milkweed Friday at Upper Butte Basin Wildlife Area to provide a breeding ground for the western monarch butterfly, one of the most beloved and well-known ...

I think you should do a column on monarch butterflies and milkweed. This past spring a friend gave me some milkweed seeds she got from the Theodore Payne Foundation. I now have six scraggly milkweed ...

Some monarch butterfly researchers are questioning Marin County and other counties’ recent decision to ban tropical milkweed sales as a way to protect the state’s dwindling populations of the iconic ...

First, the bleak butterfly news: The population of monarchs passing the winter in Mexico appears to have fallen. Now, the good news for Illinois’ state insect: The Field Museum is trying to figure out ...