Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish ...

Monarchs rely on milkweed as the sole host plant for their caterpillars, and without it, their populations struggle to thrive ...

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

You may be aware that Monarch butterflies are endangered. This is due to the loss of habitat and the use of pesticides.

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 ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its ...

It's hard to believe that milkweed has nearly disappeared from Vermont's landscape in just a few short years. In the Green Mountain State, corn crops are everywhere and along the edges of those fields ...

The monarch butterfly population spending the winter in the western United States has declined to its second-lowest level in nearly three decades.

February is a month filled with love, reflection, and community spirit. While it brings Valentine’s Day celebrations, it also ...

They've proven, through scientific research, that the caterpillars that eat the tropical milkweed develop smaller wings, so they're less able to do the long-distance migration flight.

Only three molecular changes are needed for fruit flies to digest milkweed toxins Gene-edited fruit flies have gained some of monarch butterflies’ superpowers — specifically, the ability to ...