Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In recent years, the monarch butterfly population has decreased by ...

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

Monarch butterflies are making their annual stop at Gibbs Gardens in Cherokee County as part of their long migration to ...

In early fall, the butterflies assemble by the dozens or hundreds on the South Shore before a journey of several weeks to ...

It's been an unusually hot fall in Texas, and that may explain why the iconic southbound march of the monarch butterfly ...

Monarch butterflies, with their striking orange and black wings, are some of the most recognizable butterflies in North America. But they're in trouble. Monarch caterpillars can only eat the leaves of ...

When oleander aphids infested tropical milkweed, monarch butterflies laid fewer eggs on the plant, and the caterpillars developing on those plants were slower to mature. Many gardeners will tell you ...

If you know about monarch butterflies, you’ve probably also learned about — or even witnessed! — their incredible life cycle.

Oliver Hernandez poses with a common milkweed plant in his front yard in 2020. A tiny, young monarch caterpillar and even tinier monarch eggs are visible on the underside of a leaf. Across the Midwest ...

PETOSKEY, MI – Lauri Juday carries around little packets of common milkweed seeds and gives them to anyone who promises to plant them. That’s because monarch butterflies need native milkweed plants to ...

Milkweed plants purchased at retail nurseries across the United States were contaminated with pesticides harmful to monarch caterpillars that rely on milkweed, a study found. Every plant sampled was ...