Many gardeners will tell you that aphids are the bane of their existence. According to a new study from the University of Florida, these tiny pests also pose problems for the iconic monarch butterfly.

BEAVER ISLAND, MI – Lauri Juday stooped down to inspect the leaves of a common milkweed plant and then shouted, “I’ve got one.” She was leading a group of student volunteers to find and collect ...

Marvelous Monarchs: The butterflies are free - all you need is patience and milkweed George Carlin once observed that "the caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity." Not ...

As July sunlight pokes through the trees, a butterfly egg rests gently in Wojciech Poreba’s palm as he sifts through milkweed leaves at Hamlet Park in Cottage Grove. At age 25, Poreba has four years ...

We can expect the monarch butterflies to arrive in San Antonio on their migration route from Canada to their wintering grounds near Mexico City any time now. If milkweed plants are available, some ...

An expert has confirmed what backyard gardeners and amateur naturalists have been saying for weeks: There are fewer monarch butterflies in Illinois this summer. At the national Monarch Larva ...

In the wild only 2%-10% of the eggs laid will become mature butterflies. Those numbers can improve to 80%-95% if we provide safe places away from their predators for them to feed and pupate. The ...

Karen Richards / KLCC A small nonprofit in rural Douglas County is a key player in monarch butterfly research and conservation on the West Coast. The Elkton Community Education Center houses a replica ...

Monarch butterfly migration has a history that repeats every year! On Saturday, Sept. 9, the University of Tennessee Arboretum will host its annual Butterfly Festival ...

It’s a sunny July afternoon, and Grayslake neighbors Annie Lawson and Heather Bauer are standing at the side of Lawson’s home, carefully going through her garden of milkweed plants. Lawson points at ...

The monarch butterflies are starting to come through San Antonio and the rest of Central Texas on their migration from Mexico to Canada. If you have milkweed growing in your landscape or area, they ...