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

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.

A few weeks ago at The Hague School, environmental biology and chemistry teacher Karen Spencer, along with a crew of parents, ...

Monarch caterpillars may be safe (mostly) from avian predation, but they can be preyed upon by spiders, ants, and wasps. Parasitoids such as tachinid flies and braconid wasps may use the larvae as ...

In just three years, this Omaha gardener has turned her backyard into a certified wildlife habitat and monarch way station.

Turns out, monarch butterflies are also feeling the impact on their food sources, a biologist says. The lack of food will ...

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

Planting milkweed is one of the easiest ways to support monarch butterfly populations, but this slip-up could actually cause ...

This type of milkweed, like other milkweeds, serves as a host plant for monarch caterpillars -- cute little baby butterflies that need to eat milkweed foliage before they can take wing.

Some caterpillars produce silk to weave cocoons in which they pupate. Our monarch, though, makes a chrysalis, a pupal case with a translucent, membranous skin around it. Then the hard part begins.