Not including animals like the bald eagle or Eastern bluebird, the monarch butterflies have garnered much interest in people.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is encouraging wildlife enthusiasts to help Monarch butterflies ...

When oleander aphids infested tropical milkweed, monarch butterflies laid fewer eggs on the plant, and the caterpillars developing on those plants were slower to mature.

Monarch butterflies rely on milkweed plants to survive. To help out your local pollinators, consider these free and low-cost ways to get your hands on seeds.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is pushing to get monarch butterflies added to the endangered species list as their numbers drop.

The monarch grows inside an egg for three to four days, lives as a caterpillar for about two weeks, and then inside the chrysalis (pupa) for about 10 days before setting off on its short but ...

They offer both milkweed for monarch caterpillars as well as nectar plants for adult butterflies (and many other pollinators, too). Today, more than 90% of native grasslands have been converted to ...

A pair of monarch butterfly chrysalis hang next to a caterpillar preparing to make its own. Annie Lawson and Heather Bauer have various ways of protecting the caterpillars as they transform into ...

July and August are the best months, when the monarch is visible in Canada at all stages of its development: eggs, caterpillar, chrysalis and adult butterfly.

And here were 14 monarch caterpillars, right in the back of my car. So I climbed into my attic and took down the screened butterfly cage I bought when I was trying everything I could think of to ...