Alonso notes that the most important thing anyone can do, especially in the U.S., is plant milkweed native to where they live ...

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

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 ...

I have been wondering if it would have been more likely to be struck by lightning,” said the biologist who spotted the rare ...

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

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

She spearheaded the creation of a native milkweed garden at the 32-acre Wawapek Preserve in Cold Spring Harbor.

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

When a wounded monarch butterfly arrived at a Long Island wildlife center this summer, its chances of survival looked grim.

WILLMAR--The monarch butterfly is a welcome summer visitor to Minnesota, but in the past few years the butterfly population has suffered severe setbacks. Weather, lack of habitat in its wintering ...

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 ...