Providing beautiful blooms for monarchs not only adds to the beauty of your garden but helps support their population. Here ...

LEHI, Utah — Butterfly enthusiasts are patiently waiting for Monarch butterflies to arrive in Utah after their migration was delayed due to cold and wet winter conditions.

Butterfly gardens are a great source of enjoyment. It can be a perfect opportunity to work with children or grandchildren and ...

White-, black- and yellow-striped monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) larvae devour milkweed leaves. Their jewellike chrysalids, or pupae, are jade green with gold lines and spots.

And here were 14 monarch caterpillars, right in the back of my car. So I climbed into my attic and took down the screened butterfly cage I bought when I was trying everything I could think of to ...

Both the milkweed tussock and the monarch caterpillars eat the cardiac glycoside-laden milky sap of milkweed and have evolved mechanisms to retain those toxins in their bodies after ...

These cats came from our neighbor Kim, who belongs to the Monarch Maniacs of Ohio, a Facebook group with almost 5,000 members devoted to the iconic black-and-orange butterfly that recently was ...

What do milkweed, monarchs, and a Buffalo park event have in common? The answer may surprise you—and inspire you.

(Beyond Pesticides, April 23, 2020) Pesticide spray drift from adjacent farmlands expose butterfly larvae to lethal pesticide concentrations, according to research published in Environmental ...

Big monarch caterpillars don’t avoid toxic milkweed goo. They binge on it. The plant sap is a sticky deathtrap for young larvae. Older lab larvae guzzle it from pipettes ...