These flowers are gorgeous for you—and a feast for monarch butterflies.

Why Do Monarch Butterflies Swarm? Monarch butterflies, like other butterfly species and birds, must migrate to warmer climates during the cold winter months. Monarch butterflies are unique because ...

Adding nectar-rich flowers isn’t the only thing horticulturists, entomologists, and the like recommend if you want butterflies to flock to your garden. With a few ingredients you probably already have ...

Spending time in a beautiful garden can be transformative. In fact, some visitors to the Smithsonian’s Mary Livingston Ripley Garden in Washington, D.C., have taken this quite literally. Throughout ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature placed the monarch butterfly on its Red List of Threatened Species as endangered in July, but despite decades of declining numbers, the delicate ...

The monarch butterfly population in Mexico is on the rise again, following several years in which the number of butterflies had dwindled to worrying lows. In a report from the World Wildlife ...

As the sunlight hours get longer and the temperatures begin to climb, I’m eager to start enjoying more time in my yard. Soon, I’ll be filling the planter boxes on my deck with colorful flowers. Last ...

Two new reports estimate a 64% increase in species population and a significant decrease in forest degradation in the butterfly's winter home ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- This spring, "Foremost's Butterflies are Blooming" celebrates its 13th year, but don't expect any awkward teenage phase. The perennially popular exhibit is a finely tuned machine, ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A butterfly once thought to be extinct, the Atala butterfly, is coming back in Florida. The Sanibel Capitva Conservation Foundation said in a Facebook post on Saturday that the ...