The iconic monarch butterfly is declining across North America. You can help make a difference by providing the species with ...

ASGA's vice president of science and innovation told sugarbeet growers the potential listing of monarch butterflies as ...

Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish ...

Monarch butterflies depend on human intervention to thrive in the wild, as highlighted by the traveling exhibit "Monarchs and ...

Monarch butterflies in the western U.S. have dropped to just 9,119 this year. In 2023, the count was 233,394, meaning a 96% decline.

The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in ...

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States dropped dramatically this year even as ...

DeWaard has been finding wonder and awe in monarchs since the 1990s, when she first spotted their caterpillars at her home in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, munching milkweed. She was fascinated and ...

As the sole plant that hosts and feeds monarch caterpillars, milkweed (Asclepias species) is key to their survival. Happily, wherever you garden in the U.S., there’s a native type of milkweed ...

Monarchs across the continent face mounting threats, chief among them vanishing milkweed, the host plant for the insect's caterpillars. The plant has been disappearing before a combination of ...