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, ...

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

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 ...

Monarch butterfly populations have been declining for decades, in part because the plants that they lay their eggs on — milkweeds — have been disappearing. You can help them by planting free narrow ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Lorraine Kells first came upon two sprawling Chicago Park District flower beds near Diversey Harbor, she saw weeds and cigarette butts. But eight years later, a dazzling array of wildflowers ...