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 ...

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

While Moosa Creek Nursery is strictly wholesale, over 30 retail stores throughout southern California carry their brand of aforementioned plants for the monarch butterflies to live off. Here's ...

Protecting monarch butterflies Article by Michael Crossley, UD, and William E. Snyder, University of Georgia | Originally published in The Conversation Photo by Evan Krape January 09, 2025 Editor’s ...

The monarch butterfly is widely recognized and widely dispersed across North America and it's in trouble. Federal officials decide soon whether it gets protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Monarch butterflies, known for their astounding multi-thousand-mile migrations, have officially made their way onto the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List.

The Western monarch population has plunged more than 95% since the 1980s, and has a more than 99% chance of extinction by 2080. Western monarchs primarily spend winters along the California coast ...