The hotter conditions produced more potent toxins in the milkweed. But the researchers said that surprisingly, the parasitic ...

Climate warming can impact plant quality, which in turn shapes the nutrition and immune defense of insect herbivores like ...

Pacific Grove is known as ‘Butterfly Town USA’ for its role as an overwintering spot. As the insect’s population plummets, residents are coming to its rescue ...

A monarch butterfly unable to launch was given a second chance after a rare wing transplant using donor wings from a deceased insect. The five-minute procedure worked instantly, allowing the butterfly ...

It is now the late season for butterflies in Goleta groves, and the picture is dismal. Only two butterflies were recorded in ...

With its charismatic appearance and awe-inspiring migrations, it's not surprising that the monarch butterfly motivates gardeners to provide extra care for these pollinators in their gardens. These ...

It’s a sunny July afternoon, and Grayslake neighbors Annie Lawson and Heather Bauer are standing at the side of Lawson’s home, carefully going through her garden of milkweed plants. Lawson points at ...

Monarch butterflies travel through Oklahoma, but lately, we're seeing fewer of them than ever before. Aaron Walton plants milkweed at his south Tulsa home to try to save monarch butterflies. He’s ...

Great Neck's Cynthia Zhang and Massapequa's Gia Providente earned the 2025 Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes.

After flying some 3,000 miles from the northern U.S. and Canada to a remote forest in Central Mexico for the winter, tens of millions of monarch butterflies are making their way back north. These are ...

A Camarillo nonprofit founder believes a monarch butterfly preserve could be located where mature eucalyptus trees were cut ...