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

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.

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

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 ...

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

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.

Nearly 90 percent of the monarch butterflies in the Western U.S. spend their winters along the California coastline and the majority of them come here to the Central Coast.

SAN FRANCISCO – Each year, millions of majestic orange and black monarch butterflies make an extreme, multi-generational 3,000 mile migration across the United States, flocking to wintering ...

Protecting a species: This metro Phoenix city intends to become a haven for monarch butterflies. Here's how Garden requires a lot of attention The pair worked for two years applying for federal ...

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 ...

ASGA's vice president of science and innovation told sugarbeet growers the potential listing of monarch butterflies as threatened could be difficult for those who planted milkweed for them.

In 2022, Merkely hosted the first Monarch Butterfly Summit with the U.S. Department of the Interior and helped establish a Pollinator Conservation Center at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.