A migration journey of a thousand miles (or more) starts with lots of monarch butterfly flowers. Grow these nectar flowers ...

Becoming our state insect wouldn’t give the regal fritillary any new conservation statuses or protections, though Iowa’s ...

Monarchs rely on these flowers to complete their life cycle ... and monarch butterflies? DANIELLE VENTON: For monarchs, milkweed is breeding habitat. The adults use the flower for nectar, and the ...

Good butterfly gardeners know it takes both nectar plants for adults and host plants for caterpillars to draw ... support the ...

Spend some time looking for Monarch eggs and caterpillars and watch their life cycle. In this lesson, 4-H’ers will learn about Monarch butterflies, why they’re important and how to protect them. When ...

The parasite has increased tenfold since the early 2000s, researchers said. Many infected monarch caterpillars don't make it to adulthood and those that do can't fly well and don't live long.

Monarch butterflies are migrating through the Permian Basin, embarking on a 2,000-mile journey to Mexico as part of their ...

Like all species in the giant order lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), the monarch lifecycle is a perfect metamorphosis of four acts: egg, caterpillar, pupa, butterfly. The brightly colored ...

She observed the “J-shaped caterpillar that was Big Guy turn overnight into a pupa,” she says. “That’s the next phase. Now we wait for an actual monarch ... this life’s change to my ...

An experiment to grow new forests in central Mexico offers hope that the crucial winter habitat for millions of migrating monarch butterflies could survive into the next century. While moving a ...