The monarch butterfly life cycle begins with a whirl of wings in the heat of the summer sun. As a female monarch sips nectar from a wildflower, a male hovers nearby. A pheromone is released from tiny ...

There’s only one host plant for a monarch butterfly—milkweed! Choose native varieties for your area such as common milkweed, butterfly weed, swamp milkweed and showy milkweed. Create a monarch haven ...

With a deft move of his net, 12-year-old Bear Graf, of Middle Island, captured an energetic male monarch butterfly, distinguishable by the two dark marks on his hind wings. He delivered him to the ...

The plant most gardeners buy to save the monarch butterfly is quietly making things worse. Every spring, nurseries and ...

The rural town of Elkton has developed a statewide reputation as a butterfly paradise. The city in Douglas County, midway between Roseburg and Reedsport along the Umpqua River, numbers only 180 ...

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its second-lowest mark in nearly three decades as pesticides, diminishing habitat and climate change ...