This is great news for the nearly-extinct monarch butterflies, which will pass through the area as they migrate back to ...

There's more to the journey of monarch butterflies than you may know. Study this monarch migration map to see the route the ...

After 600 seeded containers of six native milkweeds and three years of classes, here's where the Native Milkweed Project in ...

Milkweed is the only host plant of monarch butterflies, meaning it’s the only plant on which monarchs will lay eggs and eat. Milkweed also provides a food source for many other pollinators.

With vigorous debate surrounding the health of the monarch butterfly, new research from the University of Georgia ... to ...

Last month, Abigail Nixon released into her Wayburn backyard the last of 16 monarch butterflies she raised to maturity this summer after collecting them as eggs off milkweed in the alley behind her ...

The increasing intensity and frequency of extreme heat likely compounds stresses on the iconic butterfly, worrying biologists ...

Examples of such plants include zinnias, coneflowers, and milkweed. Montgomery explains ... support their entire lifecycle, from egg to adult. Each butterfly species prefers specific host ...

Monarch caterpillars feed almost exclusively on milkweed plants within the genus Asclepias ... understand how these temperature changes will likely affect monarchs throughout their life cycle, as they ...

With vigorous debate surrounding the health of the monarch butterfly, new research from the University of Georgia may have ...

The charismatic monarch butterfly is migrating through the Lone Star State, as the species heads to Mexico for winter.

The monarch butterfly was recently declared endangered by the International Union for ... On their trip north, the population looks for milkweed to lay its eggs, and the adults need nectar plants for ...