The iconic monarch butterfly is declining across North America. You can help make a difference by providing the species with ...

(AP) — The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter ... Barbara that saw 33,200 monarchs last winter hosted only 198 ...

The number of monarch ... only 198 butterflies this year. Monarchs across the continent face mounting threats, chief among them vanishing milkweed, the host plant for the insect's caterpillars.

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Overwintering populations of monarch butterflies in California ... the host plant for the insect’s caterpillars. The plant has been disappearing from a combination ...

Before National Geographic published its famous August 1976 cover story detailing the search for the monarch ... butterflies mate and fly north, eventually stopping to lay eggs once they find ...

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 ...

which serves as the host plant for the butterflies’ caterpillars. The vanishing milkweed is a result of a combination of drought, wildfires, agriculture, and urban development. Additionally, remaining ...

Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch ... whose larvae feed on its leaves like monarchs, and pollinators including other butterflies, birds, and bees ...