Butterfly milkweed has lots of ornamental appeal. This adaptable milkweed is hardy in many zones and was named the 2017 ...

A Pennsylvania butterfly farmer says listing the monarch as a threatened species could do more harm than good.

The iconic monarch butterfly is declining across North America. You can help make a difference by providing the species with its food plant: milkweed. A monarch butterfly gliding over a field on ...

Over the years, DeWaard has witnessed “a very different pattern” of monarch butterfly presence in the Smokies than what she might have expected before she began observing them. The Smokies’ first ...

Monarch caterpillars eat 200 times their weight in milkweed and can devour a whole leaf in less than 5 minutes. Monarch butterflies are poisonous to predators because of the chemicals in the milkweed ...

It is time to gather more information on growing milkweeds in the Central Texas area to contribute to the success that monarch butterflies have in producing new generations of butterflies.

"We were hoping to see the monarchs swarming ... summers are something that can impact monarch butterflies either directly or through loss of milkweed." This is a major concern because monarch ...

Before National Geographic published its famous August 1976 cover story detailing the search for the monarch ... butterflies mate and fly north, eventually stopping to lay eggs once they find ...