If everything in nature goes to plan, it won’t be long before hundreds of thousands of monarch butterflies make their yearly journey north, passing over Washington and perhaps even making the ...

The monarch butterfly life cycle begins with a whirl of wings in the heat of the summer sun. As a female monarch sips nectar ...

Marvelous Monarchs: The butterflies are free - all you need is patience and milkweed George Carlin once observed that "the caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity." Not ...

In Lafayette, Peggy Giglio has turned her backyard into the front lines of her efforts to help prevent the monarch butterfly's migratory collapse — and she's recruiting volunteers to help at every ...

Maybe science has misunderstood the dining style of big monarch butterfly caterpillars. What insect watchers have called defense against the toxic latex a milkweed plant oozes may not be avoidance at ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Magnolia Montgomery, age 12, peered into a rectangular enclosure covered with ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — U.S. wildlife officials announced a decision Tuesday to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies after years of warnings from environmentalists that populations are ...