You might not notice, but a new life cycle is beginning in the garden. A monarch butterfly just laid an egg on a milkweed ...

Picture a butterfly. Go ahead, I’ll wait. You likely pictured a striking butterfly with electric orange and black wings and ...

(Follow the monarch butterfly on its nearly 3,000-mile journey.) To give the seedlings on Nevado de Toluca the best chance of survival, the team planted the baby trees under "nurse plants ...

The increasing intensity and frequency of extreme heat likely compounds stresses on the iconic butterfly, worrying biologists ...

Like all species in the giant order lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), the monarch lifecycle is a perfect metamorphosis of four acts: egg, caterpillar, pupa, butterfly. The brightly colored ...

In 2017, the team from this study gathered seeds from cones from eight strands of sacred fir in Mexico’s Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (MBBR). These trees grow at altitudes between 10,170 ...

“The butterfly itself isn’t in danger of ... A sign describes the life cycle of monarch butterflies at Shelburne Farms recently. Photo by Olivia Miller/CNS The Pollinator Pathway, a volunteer ...

Part of the butterflies’ remaining habitat — the fir trees in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Michoacán — is slowly shifting upwards as the climate warms. But the firs will ...

Solano RCD is offering two free online workshops and two free in-person workshops to help residents learn how to provide monarch butterfly habitat in as little as 100 square feet ...

It doesn’t happen.” His team collected oyamel fir seeds from elevations between 3,100 meters and 3,500 meters inside the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Michoacán state and grew them ...

Monarch butterfly numbers are dwindling and have been for decades. According to the Tennessee Department of Transportation, the pollinator's population and sole source of food and habitat ...

Seven-year-old Isabelle Abernethy looked up adoringly at a large Monarch butterfly character as she showed off her own wings ...