For the first time in California, citizen scientists can join the effort to track monarch butterflies thanks to Blu+, a new ...

While I suspect the majority of people here in Texas have seen a monarch butterfly, most probably don’t know that they make ...

The Western Monarch Count is underway, a community science project that aims to understand population changes for the orange ...

Beyond the monarch, lovely nectar-laden, fragrant flowers attract and nourish a diversity of other butterflies, moths, native bees, honeybees, wasps, flies, beetles and ants. Along with their sap, ...

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 ...

The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...

Monarch butterflies from the western United States have arrived in Santa Cruz and other parts of the California coast, clumping on branches of Monterey pine, coastal redwoods and eucalyptus, where ...

Explore the stunning $2M art installation inspired by butterfly migrations at The Monarch Hotel, opening March 3 in the ...

I recently had the opportunity to get a sneak preview of Flight of the Butterflies, which opens at the The American Museum of Natural History in New York City on Saturday, Jan 5. This movie taught me ...

Here in Maryland, where I live, monarch butterflies were everywhere last summer. Some days I saw several black-and-orange visitors wafting past or opportunistically sucking nectar from nearby flowers.

Beyond the monarch, lovely nectar-laden, fragrant flowers attract and nourish a diversity of other butterflies, moths, native bees, honeybees, wasps, flies, beetles and ants. Along with their sap, ...