Late last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced rule changes that would impact habitats and listing or delisting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We have been encouraging our backyard milkweed to grow ever since we moved over five years ago. I have friends who have issues ...

Suitable habitat for migrating monarch butterflies will shift southwards because of climate change, according to a study ...

New research shows climate change may push monarch butterflies farther south and make their long migration harder in the ...

Suitable milkweed habitat in Mexico may shift south, fracturing existing migration routes and possibly pushing some ...

BEAVER ISLAND, MI – Lauri Juday stooped down to inspect the leaves of a common milkweed plant and then shouted, “I’ve got one.” She was leading a group of student volunteers to find and collect ...

As July sunlight pokes through the trees, a butterfly egg rests gently in Wojciech Poreba’s palm as he sifts through milkweed leaves at Hamlet Park in Cottage Grove. At age 25, Poreba has four years ...

Learn facts about the monarch butterfly, including how how to tell male and female monarchs apart and if monarchs are poisonous.

As temperatures rise, monarch butterflies begin their remarkable trek north, renewing one of North America’s most iconic ...

Our neighbor Mary has a small patch of milkweed behind her potting shed. It’s shaded by a young sassafras tree, and some Japanese stilt grass is pushing its way in as well. We use neighbor John and ...

Photo Caption: This is one of a dozen winter monarch butterflies that were raised from larvae found by Bob Pish shortly before Christmas. Photograph by Bob Pish. During the 12 years this column has ...