the only plant in which the butterflies lay their eggs, and from which monarch caterpillars feed. Land-use changes in the United States, combined with the widespread use of herbicides and insecticides ...

Photo Credit: Photo courtesy of Emily Althoff. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – With spring around the corner, University of Missouri Extension field horticulturist Kelly McGowan urges gardeners to consider how ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The number of monarch butterflies wintering in the mountains west of Mexico City rebounded this year, doubling the area they covered in 2024 despite the stresses of climate ...

WASHINGTON—Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today over its failure to protect the monarch butterfly under the Endangered Species Act. Center for Food ...

Monarch butterflies are known to only lay their eggs on milkweed and caterpillars only feed on milkweed leaves. "Many insects have the potential for rapid population growth and recovery, but habitat ...

In a hopeful turn for one of North America’s most iconic insects, the Mexican National Commission of Protected Areas (CONANP) announced that monarch butterfly populations wintering in the country ...

Last month an annual survey that looked just at monarch butterflies, which federal officials plan to put on the threatened species list, counted a nearly all-time low of fewer than 10,000 ...

Monarch butterflies, for instance, are one example of a thriving species. The population of monarch butterflies nearly doubled in population in 2024-25 versus 2023-24, according to a survey ...

June 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) A red admiral butterfly stops on a New England Aster flower at the Royal Horticultural Society Garden Wisley, in the village of Wisley, near Woking, ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The number of monarch butterflies wintering in the mountains west of Mexico City rebounded this year, doubling the area they covered in 2024 despite the stresses of climate change ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The number of monarch butterflies wintering in the mountains west of Mexico City rebounded this year ...