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

The Lucas Soil and Water Conservation District is the local collection station for mature common milkweed seed pods in Lucas ...

Staff at Milberger's Certified Butterfly Garden and area gardeners report that the migrating monarchs have already laid eggs that have hatched. The caterpillars are eating available milkweed.

Planting flowering plants—but not tropical milkweed—along the migration path won't hurt ... Davis et al, Dramatic recent ...

Monarch butterfly populations have been in decline since the 1990s ... The decline can be attributed, in part, to the loss of milkweed in the region, Brumfield said, which is essential to the ...

Monarch butterfly numbers are dwindling and have been for decades. The Tennessee Department of Transportation wants to change ...

Creating a butterfly-friendly garden is simple once ... Examples of such plants include zinnias, coneflowers, and milkweed. Montgomery explains, “Double-flowering varieties make it difficult ...

Milkweed and wildflowers may soon be a common sight growing around cornfields in an effort to help increase biodiversity in ...

Just as the monarch evolved as a milkweed specialist, OE infects only monarchs and a few other butterfly species. Deaths happened around the time the caterpillars were pupating or trying to emerge as ...

New documentary looks at environmental destruction along the 4,000 km path of the endangered monarch butterfly’s migration ...

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

milkweed, have declined by 90% since 1992. In June 2022, the International Union for Conservation of Nature announced the monarch butterfly had joined the Red List of Threatened Species as ...