With the summer season ramping up, experts with Texas A&M AgriLife said now is the ideal time to create an oasis for monarch ...

Monarch butterflies are a beautiful thing to see flying through your garden, but the local wasps are eating them up. Here's ...

When oleander aphids infested tropical milkweed, monarch butterflies laid fewer eggs on the plant, and the caterpillars developing on those plants were slower to mature. The researchers will next ...

Native plants are valued by gardeners because native wildlife have relied on those plants for centuries. But which plants are ...

The plight of monarch butterflies is well known ... It thrives in spring, summer, fall and winter. Native milkweed plants, on the other hand, die back after they bloom. They also have flowers ...

In two studies published Thursday in the journal Frontiers of Ecology and Evolution, researchers said that cities can aid in the preservation and continued existence of the monarch by planting ...

New Trier Township is continuing its efforts to preserve the monarch butterfly by committing to take three specific actions over the next year. For the second consecutive year, township officials ...

Caterpillar host plants include: • Asceplia sp. — Two species are native to Colorado, showy milkweed (A. speciosa) and ...

Monarch butterflies are beginning to ... Thankfully, drought conditions have eased this spring, and the common milkweed — the host plant butterflies lay eggs on — has “pretty long roots ...

Pollinators. They’re kind of a big deal. From iconic Monarch Butterflies and humble honey bees to fast-flying hummingbirds ...

"If you don't prune it back, some of the butterflies may ... re able to provide a variety of monarch host plants during the spring, but we prune our tropical milkweed all the way to the ground ...