Planting milkweed is one of the easiest ways to support monarch butterfly populations, but this slip-up could actually cause ...

Monarch butterflies depend on milkweed and its close relatives to complete their life cycle. The study’s findings suggest that when aphids attack tropical milkweed, they compromise this monarch ...

Gardeners are scrambling to help the threatened monarch butterfly by planting more milkweed, the insect's host plant. Drought, loss of habitat and pesticides have decimated stands of milkweed ...

As the breeding season for birds wraps up in the prairies, keen observers can turn their eyes to another flighted critter ...

“Milkweed is required for the life cycle of the monarch butterfly. Monarchs lay their eggs exclusively on milkweed because monarch larvae and monarch caterpillars’ sole food source is the milkweed ...

The endangered monarch butterfly lays its eggs in milkweed plants, but there's not as many of those plants around as there used to be.

The monarch life cycle begins each spring when it deposits eggs on milkweed leaves. But this dependency of monarchs on milkweeds as food is not reciprocated, and milkweeds do all they can to poison or ...

A recent study concludes that a new, overwintering population of the Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) in the Southern U.S. is the direct result of ideal breeding conditions created by ...

The Illinois Monarch Action Plan is the state’s all-hands-on-deck effort to ensure the survival of the monarch butterfly. The plan aims to add 150 million stems of milkweed by 2038.

BUTTE CITY — River Partners and allies planted milkweed Friday at Upper Butte Basin Wildlife Area to provide a breeding ground for the western monarch butterfly, one of the most beloved and well ...

Monarch butterfly populations have dropped 90 percent in the past two decades. The Desert Botanical Garden's milkweed program can help them survive.

Planting milkweed is one of the easiest ways to support monarch butterfly populations, but this slip-up could actually cause them more harm than good.