We have been encouraging our backyard milkweed to grow ever since we moved over five years ago. I have friends who have issues with the aggressive growth of milkweed. We don’t have this problem. We ...

An international collaboration to track individual monarchs kicked off this fall, including James Madison University.

It's the season for outdoor hobbies, and as gardeners prepare their grounds for the seasonal harvest, they should remember to grow plants, like milkweed, to support monarch butterflies. Milkweed is ...

Monarch butterfly populations have nearly doubled this year, an annual survey of the species found. At the end of each summer, the beloved pollinators migrate from southern Canada and the northern and ...

This important study shows that different forms and mixtures of cardenolide toxins in tropical milkweed, especially nitrogen- and sulfur-containing types, change how monarch caterpillars eat, grow, ...

LOS ANGELES - March 21 is National Flower Day, and to celebrate, folks can plant some milkweed and start a pollinator garden to help the dwindling numbers of monarch butterflies. According to an ...

Retired schoolteacher Tachi Dellinger pointed inside a mesh box, where three green chrysalises hung. “This one is starting to change color,” Dellinger said. “It will turn jet black ... when it's ready ...

Every fall, millions of monarch butterflies drift across Texas skies on their way from Canada to Mexico. It's one of the longest insect migrations on the planet, and for many monarchs, Texas is the ...

The monarch butterfly life cycle begins with a whirl of wings in the heat of the summer sun. As a female monarch sips nectar from a wildflower, a male hovers nearby. A pheromone is released from tiny ...

SAN DIEGO — U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing monarch butterflies as a threatened species and has considered some possibly contradictory ways to protect them, Nicholas Storer, vice ...

With its charismatic appearance and awe-inspiring migrations, it's not surprising that the monarch butterfly motivates gardeners to provide extra care for these pollinators in their gardens. These ...