A pollinator admired for its beauty and migratory endurance, monarch butterflies are being proposed for addition as an ...

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

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

The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is renowned for its black-and-orange beauty and its spectacular migration of ...

As their name suggests, many milkweed species produce a milky-white substance that can be seen if their stem is broken.

Monarch butterflies are completely reliant on milkweed plants to reproduce, and planting milkweed can support the pollinators ...

The monarch butterfly is boldly colored as an adult and a caterpillar, using a type of signaling known as aposematism, in which conspicuous colors and patterns warn possible predators that the ...

Instead of overwintering, monarch butterflies migrate by swarming together in roosts of hundreds or thousands. Swarming helps monarch butterflies stay warm and ward off any predators they might ...