Scientists are tracking an alarming drop in the monarch butterfly population and it can impact everyone. According to researchers, the monarch population in Mexico this winter was the smallest it’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's the season for outdoor hobbies, and as gardeners prepare their grounds for the seasonal harvest, they should remember to grow ...

A daring surgical procedure has given a doomed monarch butterfly a new lease of life. The delicate operation was captured on ...

There’s only one host plant for a monarch butterfly—milkweed! Choose native varieties for your area such as common milkweed, butterfly weed, swamp milkweed and showy milkweed. Create a monarch haven ...

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 ...

A monarch butterfly was fluttering inside a large net while Larry Hoffman tried to gently grab hold of its wings. Hoffman, 77, grabbed the butterfly’s body, turned it over in his hands and placed a ...

PRAIRIE CITY, Iowa — Monarch butterflies make a pit stop at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge on their migration journey to Mexico. Millions of monarch butterflies migrate from Canada to Mexico ...

March 12 is National Plant a Flower Day, and folks can celebrate it by planting some milkweed and starting a pollinator garden to help the dwindling numbers of monarch butterflies. An annual survey ...