The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking steps to list monarch butterflies as threatened species and designate seven ...

Monarch caterpillars have distinctive white ... when I found a chrysalis and watched this butterfly slowly emerge and fly away. The process made me think about the importance of learning to ...

Monarch butterflies are important culturally and ecologically across North America. Generations have watched in wonder as yellow-and-black striped caterpillars fold into green-and-gold chrysalises and ...

Monarch butterflies are important culturally and ecologically across North America. Generations have watched in wonder as yellow-and-black striped caterpillars fold into green-and-gold chrysalises and ...

When you think about all of the amazing animals in this world, you might tend to think about the large furry critters such as bears or moose. Yes, there are many crazy-cool mammals. In fact, there ...

Much of California’s Habitat for the migratory Monarch butterfly is gone. Wild fires have decimated groves of trees and plants where the Western Monarch winters. The typical flight plan of the Monarch ...

the host plant for the insect's caterpillars. The plant has been disappearing before a combination of drought, wildfires, agriculture and urban development, according to Monarch Joint Venture ...

the host plant for the insect's caterpillars. The plant has been disappearing before a combination of drought, wildfires, agriculture and urban development, according to Monarch Joint Venture ...

Maxx Marshall, 4, Lawrence, gets an up-close look at a swallow tail butterfly at the Monarch Watch open house Saturday at KU's Foley Hall. Foley Hall on Saturday was caterpillar city.

lowering the plant’s ability to produce a beneficial compound that helps monarch caterpillars fight parasites. It’s estimated that, unless some major change is made that benefits the species ...