New research shows climate change may push monarch butterflies farther south and make their long migration harder in the ...

We have been encouraging our backyard milkweed to grow ever since we moved over five years ago. I have friends who have issues with the aggressive growth of milkweed. We don’t have this problem. We ...

Suitable milkweed habitat in Mexico may shift south, fracturing existing migration routes and possibly pushing some ...

Suitable habitat for migrating monarch butterflies will shift southwards because of climate change, according to a study ...

The iconic monarch butterfly is declining across North America. You can help make a difference by providing the species with its food plant: milkweed. A monarch butterfly gliding over a field on ...

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On a recent warm July day in Reseda, residents of the San Fernando Valley got free narrowleaf milkweed to plant in their gardens — part of a greater effort to improve the population of endangered ...

As temperatures rise, monarch butterflies begin their remarkable trek north, renewing one of North America’s most iconic ...

As July sunlight pokes through the trees, a butterfly egg rests gently in Wojciech Poreba’s palm as he sifts through milkweed leaves at Hamlet Park in Cottage Grove. At age 25, Poreba has four years ...

It’s a sunny July afternoon, and Grayslake neighbors Annie Lawson and Heather Bauer are standing at the side of Lawson’s home, carefully going through her garden of milkweed plants. Lawson points at ...