Look closely at your backyard butterflies! Here's how to detect the subtle differences among the three butterflies that look ...

Some milkweed varieties, like common milkweed ... One of the most rewarding parts of growing milkweed is watching monarch ...

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You may have heard talk about the decrease in the Monarch butterfly population. Perhaps you’ve even heard that one of the key reasons is the disappearance of milkweed from roadsides, lots and gardens ...

due to their diet of toxic milkweed. Few animals can eat monarchs without getting sick. Other nontoxic butterfly species, such as the viceroy butterfly, take advantage of the monarch’s defenses and ...

Each adult butterfly lives only about four to five weeks. Milkweed is the only plant on which monarchs will lay their eggs and the only source of food for baby caterpillars. But urban planning and ...

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 ...

VERNON — Vernon is an entry point for monarch butterflies migrating north from ... and sharing your work on social media. Picking milkweed and planting the seeds or sending them to organizations like ...

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 ...

Colony estimates at central Mexico overwintering sites indicate that monarch butterfly ... extreme weather conditions in the butterfly's migratory range (central Mexico, United States, and southern ...

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