Walton blames the use of herbicides and pesticides for the decline in the monarch butterflies. If cattle eat milkweed, it can ...

It’s hard to overlook the brilliant orange and black wings of a monarch butterfly as it moves through a garden of flowers. It ...

Ryan Pankau teaches ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander about milkweed Want to turn your yard into a butterfly haven? Planting ...

Despite some conservationists’ concerns, UC Davis researchers show that tropical milkweed has minimal impact on California monarch butterflies’ migratory patterns.

MEXICO CITY — A recent study by the Worldwide Fund has revealed a promising increase in the population of the eastern monarch butterfly, marking a significant r ...

The more systematic way to count the butterfly population is by focusing on caterpillars and eggs, which can be found nestled in milkweed – a hardy plant with bunches of yellow or purple-ish flowers ...

Monarch butterflies play a huge role as pollinators in Oklahoma. We visited Euchee Butterfly Farm to learn why they are important to our ecosystem, and how we can help them thrive.

Butterfly populations worldwide are experiencing alarming declines. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), approximately 14% of butterfly species are threatened with ...

New research from the University of California, Davis has found that these “stay-at-home” monarch butterflies represent a largely self-contained group – neither helping nor harming their declining ...

Monarch butterflies hang in large clumps from trees during the winter – a phenomenon known as overwintering. Photo / Kathy Reid. New Zealand butterfly experts say a “concerningly low” number ...

Professor Elizabeth Crone, Department of Evolution and Ecology, checks a non-native milkweed in the San Francisco Bay Area for monarch butterfly eggs and caterpillars.

Each month, they walked through 15 three mile-long routes and recorded the number of milkweed plants (both native and non-native) on the roadside and in people's front yards. They also counted monarch ...