An expert has confirmed what backyard gardeners and amateur naturalists have been saying for weeks: There are fewer monarch ...

He said larvae sightings are rarer these days. The monarch butterfly population has plummeted by 80% in the last two decades.

A few harmless insects caught the eye of Jamestown Sun photographer John M. Steiner, especially a field full of migrating ...

WEST ALTON, MO The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Rivers Project and the Audubon Center at Riverlands invite the community to ...

A milkweed leaf is like a nursery for monarch larvae, also known as instars, shielding eggs from the hot sun and rain, then providing an instant meal (after they eat their own eggshell ...

She knew the statistics on the dwindling numbers of these gorgeous/iconic butterflies, did some research, planted a stand of ...

To celebrate the annual migration of monarch butterflies, the Wildlife Department is hosting monarch tagging and roost ...

Over the next several weeks, many of us will be keeping an eye out for migrating monarch butterflies heading south to spend the winter in Central Mexico forests.

"Where we’ve been finding egg and larvae on Buckley are in these areas ... we do for them can then benefit a multitude of species." Monarch butterflies are the only butterflies that make two ...

The monarch population has been declining for years ... Their time of laying those eggs is shorter and the larva, or the caterpillars, need that warmer weather to be able to grow.

MONTRÉAL, Sept. 19, 2024 /CNW/ - Espace pour la vie is proud to announce record volunteer participation across North America in the International Monarch Monitoring Blitz in support of monarch ...