Dan Getman, a Kirksville-based master gardener, proudly watches as his grandchildren race to catch monarch butterflies on his ...

With the aid of a good seed catalog, a little advance preparation can help fend off overwhelm and buyer’s remorse and ...

The Moths and Butterflies of New Zealand Trust is asking individuals, groups and schools to tag monarch butterflies late in the autumn when the butterflies head for their overwintering habitat. This ...

The king of butterflies is under threat, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is proposing a “threatened” classification ...

We’ll begin with one of the most familiar, and most-loved, butterflies in North America, the Monarch. Their orange-on-black pattern is offset by a black border with small white spots, reminiscent of ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Share CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) — Investigators are trying to determine what caused a mechanical failure that ...

Next consider adding some plants specifically for the pollinators rather than using our typical criteria of “That’s pretty.” I have a friend who dedicated part of his garden to milkweed ...

For instance, a drone company and an AI firm are teaming up to track milkweed, a plant vital to the monarch butterfly's reproductive cycle. Plus, scientists are using AI to help identify a disease ...

"Please don't hate on the milkweed. I've moved some elsewhere on my property where it's better suited. What can I do to get rid of these in this area?" Photo Credit: Reddit As is so often the case ...

Among the advocates for that designation is the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, which awarded Franklin a grant to receive 146 plants for ... include showy milkweed, in whose patches ...

other scientists conducted a genetic analysis in 2023 that also found no evidence of population decline in monarchs or in common milkweed, the butterflies’ main larval host plant. They did this ...