Some milkweed varieties, like common milkweed ... One of the most rewarding parts of growing milkweed is watching monarch butterflies visit your garden. Once your milkweed is established and ...

You may be aware that Monarch butterflies are endangered. This is due to the loss of habitat and the use of pesticides.

Like many other insects, a single female monarch can lay hundreds of eggs. And because milkweed still is readily available, monarchs appear to be able to bounce back each year despite fewer numbers of ...

The Center is also working hard to save monarchs and other imperiled species from toxic pesticides, like glyphosate ... eat 200 times their weight in milkweed and can devour a whole leaf in less than ...

Thogmartin and other researchers have evaluated more than 200 scenarios for restoring greater than 1.3 billion stems of ...

The monarch butterfly, long idolized for its epic migrations and delicate beauty, is facing another alarming chapter in its decline. Volunteers with the Xerces Society's midseason monarch count, ...

Late last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took an important step toward putting the monarch butterfly on the ...

FILE - A monarch butterfly on milkweed in bloom ... “Maybe a few dozen to several thousand butterflies will gather almost like shingles on these tree branches,” said Mace Vaughan, conservation ...

Monarch butterfly populations have declined nearly 95% since the 1950's, mainly due to habitat loss. The Deschutes Land Trust ...

“Despite its fragility, it is remarkably resilient, like many ... transporting the butterfly. People and farmers could continue to remove milkweed, a key food source for monarch caterpillars ...

It was about eight months ago when construction worker Jeff Smith stumbled upon something in his garden that would quickly become his passion. “It was a complete accident, ” said the Buccaneer Point ...

Citizen scientists are called on to help with tagging monarch butterflies and find out why their numbers are dropping.