The caterpillars are eating available milkweed. As a neat aside, the garden staff counted 10 additional species of butterflies in the Certified Butterfly Garden in addition to the monarchs.

Our expert gardener offers tips to keep your seeds and seedlings in fighting shape for spring, including milkweed and ...

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 ...

To attract and support pollinators locally, TDOT encourages everyone to: Plant a mixture of native plants. Reduce or eliminate the use of pesticides. Plant milkweed to support monarch butterflies.

With vigorous debate surrounding the health of the monarch butterfly, new research may have answered the biggest question plaguing butterfly researchers. Why are the wintering populations declining ...

Scientists have learned that Monarch butterflies flying through Maryland, on their migration to Mexico, are not getting ...

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

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

Planting flowering plants—but not tropical milkweed—along the migration path won't hurt and may provide a source of nectar for traveling butterflies. "One of the best things people can do to ...

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

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