Changing and falling leaves are a sure sign of fall, and so are milkweed seed pods starting to dry out in preparation of being harvested. Milkweed is the only host plant of monarch butterflies, ...

Monarchs west of the Rocky Mountains make up the “western population,” with most heading to California and some continuing ...

Monarch butterflies are afoot locally, according to staff at the Deschutes Land Trust, a local nonprofit that works to restore and preserve land tracts and waters that sustain central Oregon. Over the ...

As July sunlight pokes through the trees, a butterfly egg rests gently in Wojciech Poreba’s palm as he sifts through milkweed leaves at Hamlet Park in Cottage Grove. At age 25, Poreba has four years ...

The study of 450 local milkweed patches found that several strategies were associated with finding more monarch eggs: planting common milkweed, having milkweed that’s at least five years old, having ...

The flitting fiery orange and black wings of the monarch butterfly, which once signaled the coming of spring, have become an increasingly rare sight. The majestic insect's populations on the East ...

Last weekend, Salisbury had a hand in one of the largest natural migrations taking place across the U.S., and it happened in ...

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 ...

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Steven Fulton started out offering milkweed plants to support the endangered Western Monarch population. Today his Santa Clarita Native Plant Nursery showcases more than 200 California native plants, ...