The suffering of monarch butterflies can be tied directly to the killing off of much of North America’s native milkweed stock. The female butterfly lays her eggs only on various kinds of milkweed.

The number of monarch butterflies spending winter in the western U.S. dropped dramatically this year, despite moves to extend ...

Are monarch butterflies endangered? Monarch population numbers are falling and it's clear that these butterflies need our ...

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 ...

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

The exceptions are migratory species, such as monarch butterflies, mourning cloaks ... This includes the egg stage, the caterpillar or larval stage, the pupa or chrysalis stage, and the adult ...

Spring usually unfolds slowly, carefully, like the wings of a monarch butterfly as it labors into its new life after escaping its pupa. This year, spring exploded, like the seeds of a ...

Much of California’s Habitat for the migratory Monarch butterfly is gone. Wild fires have decimated ... the Monarch is to breed in sunny California and fly north to lay their eggs on Milkweed plants ...

Millions of monarch butterflies migrated south during the fall to hibernate and lay their eggs for spring. The majority of the monarch butterfly population has been flying south to the Transvolcanic ...

Witness millions of monarch butterflies in South Carolina this spring ... is built in a small tree or shrub where the female is the predominant overseer of the eggs and the babies. Now that you know a ...

We know small populations are especially vulnerable to environmental fluctuations, and we think that’s what happened this ...