The monarch butterfly is a beautiful and colorful creature, but it takes a while to reach that part of its adult life.

It’s hard to overlook the brilliant orange and black wings of a monarch butterfly as it moves through a garden of flowers. It ...

Walton blames the use of herbicides and pesticides for the decline in the monarch butterflies. If cattle eat milkweed, it can ...

Launched on May 16, the half-kilo silver coin depicts a meticulously handcrafted monarch butterfly in Murano glass from Italy ...

“Pride, from its origin, is not only a celebration, it’s also a protest,” Sharat Lin, a longtime activist from San Jose who ...

Milkweed may seem like a weed because of its name, but it’s actually an incredibly important plant. The leaves of milkweed are the primary food source for monarch caterpillars. The flowers provide ...

The striking insects are more likely to visit your garden if you've got plenty of bright and beautiful flowers for them to ...

June is National Pollinator Month, and it’s a great time to explore ways we can support pollinators in the garden.

Butterfly species numbers dropped 22% across the U.S. between 2000 and 2020. Habitat loss, climate change, pesticides are the main causes.

Bees pollinate flowers at the pollinator garden in Calvert Vaux Park ... But the herbicide can kill everything else in its path, including the monarch butterfly’s main food source during its long ...

It’s the season to watch pollinator insects to bounce from flower to flower in the garden. The thought that they are going ...

The monarch butterfly migration is one of the great wonders of the natural world. Every year millions of them travel immense distances along predetermined monarch butterfly migration routes to escape ...