Prior research has shown that monarch caterpillars have developed a way to eat milkweed leaves despite ... in which they metamorphose into a butterfly. For this new study, the researchers watched ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking steps to list monarch butterflies as threatened species and designate seven ...

Monarch butterflies only flap their wings around 5 to 12 times per second — much more slowly than the average butterfly, who flaps about 20 times a second ... probably using magnetism and sunlight to ...

February is a month filled with love, reflection, and community spirit. While it brings Valentine’s Day celebrations, it also ...

Milkweed is a gorgeous native North American species that has multiple benefits for your garden, as well as a special ...

Explore the worrying decline of Monarch butterflies in Texas and the implications for pollination and food production. Learn why preserving these butterflies is vital for a sustainable ecosystem.

Colony estimates at central Mexico overwintering sites indicate that monarch butterfly ... forest degradation in the butterfly's overwintering sites Climate change punctuated by episodic extreme ...

Everyone can do something to support the monarch butterfly population, Howard said. If you have a garden, Howard recommended planting native milkweed or nectar plants that bloom during the fall ...

She began "Project: Monarch" in 2014 with a mission to become Louisiana's milkweed seed distributor and installed butterfly gardens ... that the caterpillars that eat the tropical milkweed develop ...

In December, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing the monarch butterfly as threatened ... that the caterpillars that eat the tropical milkweed develop smaller wings, so they're ...

WASHINGTON— The yearly count of monarch butterflies ... Service to protect the butterfly under the Endangered Species Act in 2014. Monarchs have lost an estimated 165 million acres of breeding habitat ...