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

The monarch butterfly is a beautiful and colorful creature, but it takes a while to reach that part of its adult life.

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

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

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

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

The striking insects are more likely to visit your garden if you've got plenty of bright and beautiful flowers for them to ...

Whoever keeps wiping out a healthy patch of wild milkweed on Thunder Bay’s outskirts needs to get up to speed on the crop’s ...

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

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 ...

Butterfly weed’s standout orange flowers bloom from early summer to fall, attracting hummingbirds, native bees, and ...