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

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

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

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It's high season for monarch butterflies in eastern Nebraska, but the iconic pollinators are actually the targets of an ongoing, hard-fought battle to have them designated a protected species by ...

Milkweed feed. Monarch butterflies lay their eggs on only one genus of plants: milkweed. Their larvae grow into caterpillars by consuming the milky juices in this plant’s leaves, thus their common ...

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

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. Known for long-distance ...

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.

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.

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. Known for long-distance ...

It adds: “Milkweed is generally the only plant on which Monarch will lay their eggs, as well as the only plant Monarch caterpillars will feed on.” In Ontario, only the rare four-leaved ...