Just a few years ago, the eastern monarch was considered endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature ...

The butterfly bush (Buddleja davidii) is a magnet for butterflies, thanks to its abundant clusters of fragrant, nectar-rich flowers. This hardy shrub is easy to grow and thrives in full sun with ...

Any individual flower you put out it likely to get visited,” said Nick Dorian, a post-doctoral researcher at the Chicago Botanic Garden who studies butterflies. All it takes is planting a few flowers ...

The butterfly's population crept down to the second-lowest number on record in 2024 ... The Nature Conservancy says one of ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reopening the public comment period for a proposed rule to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.