With vigorous debate surrounding the health of the monarch butterfly ... is the only plant on which monarchs can lay their eggs and their caterpillars can feed—these year-round resident monarchs ...

Like all species in the giant order lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), the monarch lifecycle is a perfect metamorphosis of four acts: egg, caterpillar, pupa, butterfly. The brightly colored ...

Officially retired, Taylor blogs about monarch migration progress for the university-based monarch research and education project, and his butterfly ... lay about 200 eggs, and caterpillars ...

The monarch butterfly life cycle ... lays several hundred white eggs, no bigger than a pinhead, on any milkweed leaf she ...

On the slopes of a volcano in central Mexico, biologist Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero and his team envision a climate refuge for oyamel fir trees and the monarch butterflies that depend on them.

There has been a decline in monarch butterfly ... DO buy twice as many plants and protect some for the monarchs of the future. DON’T plant new ones in the summer heat. Wait until the ...

Volunteers measure a 1-meter-by-1-half-meter rectangle using a PVC pipe, then count how many blooming flowers and milkweed plants are inside. They also note any monarch butterfly activity, such as ...

then count how many blooming flowers and milkweed plants are inside. They also note any monarch butterfly activity, such as caterpillars or eggs.

Female butterflies lay their eggs on these plants, which serve as a food source for the larvae (caterpillars) once they hatch. The caterpillars feed exclusively on the host plants to grow and develop.

They also note any monarch butterfly activity, such as caterpillars or eggs. Invite bees, butterflies and other pollinators to your garden ...