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 ...

Q. Why are we still seeing Monarch butterflies in the flower garden? I thought they had all migrated north of Texas already.

Milkweed is beautiful, easy to grow, and necessary for butterflies to survive. Here's how to grow and care for milkweed the right way.

Maureen Dime’s magical garden in Del Mar has become a welcome spot for hundreds of monarch butterflies. Over the last 13 ...

If Monarch butterflies lay eggs on milkweed, they best not do so in the vicinity of railway tracks. Federal transportation safety regulations give rail companies a mandate to use herbicides ...

As I crisscross the county this summer to share environmental experiences with students, I can’t help but notice all of the ...

What is the average lifespan of a monarch butterfly? Monarch butterflies generally live for five weeks, with a range of two to six weeks during summer months, while migratory monarchs live for six to ...

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

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