The New Year brought a special surprise to the Gila Watershed Partnership’s (GWP) Native Plant Nursery. While working under ...

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 ...

The monarch butterfly life cycle begins with a whirl of wings in the heat of the summer sun. As a female monarch sips nectar from a wildflower, a male hovers nearby. A pheromone is released from tiny ...

My life took an unexpected turn a week and a half ago when a friend of mine ended up having an unplanned hip replacement. Would I take care of her monarch butterfly nursery while she was laid up? Of ...

Monarch butterflies undergo a complete metamorphosis, or a four-part life cycle. Life begins as a tiny egg, which soon hatches an elfin larva, or caterpillar. The caterpillar does much of the heavy ...

Every Monday in August, Heidi Emmons is leading a group of citizen scientists into fields containing milkweed to count monarch caterpillars and eggs. The goal is to learn more about how monarch ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY, Mo. (KFVS) - When many people think of a butterfly, they picture the iconic black and orange monarch. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is pushing to get monarch butterflies ...

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 ...

It's about that time of year for Oklahomans to spot monarch butterflies, the orange-and-black-winged insect known for their twice-yearly migrations across the continent as they pass through the state ...

Arkansas is a great place to spot monarch butterflies as it falls directly in their migration path! While monarch butterflies travel through Arkansas in both the spring (late March to April) and the ...

Did you know that Disney is leading the collection of research on monarch butterfly migration patterns and feeding behaviors? We got a behind-the-scenes look at how this is done and how guests can get ...

FARGO — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking protection for a beloved species and is asking the public to play a role in its recovery. The federal agency wants the monarch butterfly listed as ...