Renowned for their incredible migration of over 2,200 miles between Canada and Mexico, the monarch butterfly is one of the most recognizable species in the nation—and their journey is currently ...

The monarch butterfly life cycle begins with a whirl of wings in the heat of the summer sun. As a female monarch sips nectar ...

With vigorous debate surrounding the health of the monarch butterfly, new research from the University of Georgia may have answered the biggest question plaguing butterfly researchers. Why are the ...

With music, food, games, fun and education, the festival celebrates the annual monarch butterfly migration when ... Others had plants for sale. “We have all of our local native plant growers ...

Monarch butterfly numbers are dwindling and have been for decades. According to the Tennessee Department of Transportation, the pollinator's population and sole source of food and habitat, milkweed, ...

Dramatic recent declines in the size of monarch butterfly ( Danaus plexippus ) roosts during fall migration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (43) DOI: 10.1073/pnas ...

Many infected monarch caterpillars don't make it to adulthood. Those that do can't fly well and don't live long, possibly contributing to the fallout of butterflies along the migration path.

About a week ago, several monarch caterpillars were busily munching on the native narrowleaf milkweed I’d planted in my backyard in the San Francisco Bay Area to provide habitat for the imperiled ...

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 ...

(Follow the monarch butterfly on its nearly 3,000-mile journey.) To give the seedlings on Nevado de Toluca the best chance of survival, the team planted the baby trees under "nurse plants ...

In 2017, the team from this study gathered seeds from cones from eight strands of sacred fir in Mexico’s Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (MBBR). These trees grow at altitudes between 10,170 ...

UGA said that a big question when discussing the monarch butterfly is, why are the wintering populations declining while breeding populations are stable? The study published by the Proceedings of ...