The SOW nonprofit will host two more milkweed giveaways for the public on August 30 in Arleta, September 14 in Reseda.

The monarch butterfly is a beautiful and colorful creature, but it takes time to reach this stage of its adult life.

Black swallow-wort - an invasive weed - is taking over gardens across Greater Boston, including Jamaica Plain and East Boston ...

According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Eastern Monarch population has dropped from around 383 million to under ...

By Jeff Gaffney Every fall and winter, one of the most delicate, iconic, endangered visitors, the western Monarch butterfly, ...

The city of Phoenix has planted several gardens to support struggling monarch butterflies, including one at the downtown crime lab.

Habitat loss, climate change and the use of pesticides are to blame for the population decline of monarchs, says Karen Oberhauser, the co-founder and co-director of the Monarch Larva Monitoring ...

How-to’s for creating monarch butterfly habitats The adult monarch butterfly, which lives only about four to five weeks, lays its eggs on milkweed, the only source of food for baby caterpillars.

But conservationists have worried for the past decade that monarch numbers are dwindling. A butterfly sits on a leaf at Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific Grove, Calif., on Nov. 10, 2021.

But that’s still around 90% below the historic norms seen in the 1980s, Pelton says, when an estimated 1 million to 15 million monarch butterflies overwintered along the California coast ...

AMES, Iowa — Enhancing the monarch butterfly’s habitat in rural and urban Iowa is the goal of a new, broad-based statewide effort. The Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium, established through the ...