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

Creating a haven for monarch butterflies in your backyard is more than just a joy for the eyes—it’s a crucial way to support ...

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

You've probably seen monarch butterflies, and maybe monarch caterpillars, but there's a lot to learn about the monarch life ...

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

Queen butterfly perching on yellow flower during daytime. Image via Unsplash. One of the primary functions of a butterfly’s foot-tasting ability is to identify appropriate host plants for egg-laying.

Every day, she tends to her plants and carefully protects the monarch caterpillars that call her garden home. Mary Ann Steeb protects caterpillars as they grow in these butterfly cages. (WKMG-TV) ...

Two monarch caterpillars sit on a milkweed plant. Grant funding by the Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund has been allocated for signage, as well. The group is actively fundraising to get the project ...

Flowers vary from all yellow to red. Butterfly Weed is a host plant for Gray Hairstreak and Monarch butterfly caterpillars. The life history of a Monarch butterfly is fascinating to observe.

Milkweed feed Monarch butterflies lay their eggs on only one genus of plants: milkweed. Their larvae grow into caterpillars by consuming the milky juices in this plant’s leaves, thus their common name ...

Bayer Hawaii, in partnership with Sharing the Butterfly Experience, will be giving away 30 Monarch Butterfly Kits at the 2025 Maui AgFest & 4-H Livestock Fair on May 31 at the War Memorial Complex ...

Every fall, an incredible migration occurs through the state of Indiana, where millions of tiny monarch butterflies fly on their way to overwintering grounds in Mexico, only to return in the ...