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Milkweed is the host plant for butterfly enthusiasts who want to attract monarch butterflies. When the monarch discovers the milkweed, she lays her eggs on it. Once the eggs hatch, the small ...

It is Monarch migration time! The fifth generation is beginning their long trip to their Mexican overwintering grounds in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve on the border of Michoacán and State ...

For years, home gardeners have been told to do one thing to save monarch butterflies: plant milkweed, the only plant monarch caterpillars eat. And for years, that’s what Linda Barber Auld, known as ...

Before National Geographic published its famous August 1976 cover story detailing the search for the monarch butterfly’s wintering grounds, nobody knew where these strikingly beautiful creatures ...

Zoë Short observes a monarch butterfly at LaPrele Park in Laramie. Short, a University of Wyoming 2023 spring graduate from Douglas who received her bachelor’s degree in zoology, was the lead author ...

Fall is officially here in Texas, and as the leaves turn color, something else orange will be visible in nature: the monarch butterfly. During the fall season, monarch butterflies will migrate from as ...