Here, they also have a front-row seat of Newberger’s award-winning butterfly garden thriving at an elevation of 5,500 feet. Monarch butterflies lay eggs on showy milkweed. Pale swallowtail, echo azure ...

Adult monarch butterflies hatch with their wings folded and damp. They will need some time to dry off and get used to having wings. Once dry, female monarchs are ready to reproduce, though males will ...

Monarchs lay their eggs on milkweed plants and the young caterpillars feed exclusively on them. Butterfly conservationists encourage people to plant them where they can to promote monarch populations.

The iconic monarch butterfly is declining across North America. You can help make a difference by providing the species with its food plant: milkweed.

Monarch caterpillars feed exclusively on milkweed – they will not survive on anything else. Native milkweeds are historically very common, although with the advent of vast fields of corn ...

U.S. officials decided to extend protections to monarch butterflies after warnings from environmentalists that populations are shrinking and the beloved pollinator may not survive climate change.

A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 11, 2024, Section A, Page 20 of the New York edition with the headline: Monarch Butterfly Is Recommended for Protected Status.

Monarch butterflies embark on a marvelous migratory phenomenon. They travel between 1,200 and 2,800 miles or more from the northeast United States, and southeast Canada to the mountain forests in ...

Monarch butterflies could be on the federal Endangered Species list by year's end. Eastern monarchs found in northeastern states saw an 80% population decline between the 1980s and 2020. Their Western ...

Wojciech Poreba inspects milkweed at Hamlet Park in Cottage Grove while looking for monarch butterfly eggs Wednesday afternoon Aug. 7, 2024. (Devanie Andre / Pioneer Press) Raising and releasing ...