Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed monarch butterflies, whose numbers in the ...

The first of this year's southbound monarch butterflies are arriving at their overwintering grounds in central Mexico, though some still have yet to pass through Rogers County. A local native wildlife ...

Steven Fulton started out offering milkweed plants to support the endangered Western Monarch population. Today his Santa Clarita Native Plant Nursery showcases more than 200 California native plants, ...

If you know about monarch butterflies, you’ve probably also learned about — or even witnessed! — their incredible life cycle.

For gardeners, that means to support our native pollinators and other native insects that our ecosystem relies on, we must plant the native plants they’ve evolved with over millennia. Monarch ...

For years, planting milkweed was the go-to way to help monarchs. Now, scientists say it may be fueling a parasite that’s ...

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 ...

The monarch butterfly, known for its bright orange patterned wings, is in the middle of its migration from the northern U.S.

Monarchs west of the Rocky Mountains make up the “western population,” with most heading to California and some continuing ...