Climate warming can impact plant quality, which in turn shapes the nutrition and immune defense of insect herbivores like ...

The hotter conditions produced more potent toxins in the milkweed. But the researchers said that surprisingly, the parasitic ...

Every year, the World Wildlife Fund Mexico partners with other conservation groups and local citizens to conduct a count of eastern monarch butterflies in their winter home, the Monarch Butterfly ...

Our neighbor Mary has a small patch of milkweed behind her potting shed. It’s shaded by a young sassafras tree, and some Japanese stilt grass is pushing its way in as well. We use neighbor John and ...

A monarch butterfly migration is a memorable sight. In North America, the iconic insects travel south to Mexico in the fall and north again in the spring. Wherever they stop, hundreds of fluttering ...

They’re a brilliant orange sight by the millions as the season changes and we’re not talking about the leaves. This week is all about monarch butterflies. * The story goes that the “monarch” part ...

Shelley Ramey shares her passion for saving Monarch butterflies, one egg at a time Lake Township nature lover Shelley Ramey has spent the last five years protecting and releasing Monarch butterflies.

On a warm summer morning, you’re sitting in your yard enjoying a slow moment, when a flash of color catches your eye. Bright orange and black wings dance through the air before alighting on a purple ...