For the upcoming Monarch Fest, the Monarch Research Project rears somewhere between 150 and 200 butterflies, which is only a small fraction of the thousands raised at the Marion research ...

Learn which monarch butterfly predators and parasites pose a real threat to their survival, and which are part of the natural ...

With vigorous debate surrounding the health of the monarch butterfly, new research from the University of Georgia may have answered the biggest question plaguing butterfly researchers. Why are the ...

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Scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys that take thousands of miles to their winter colonies in Mexico. A monarch butterfly carrying a tiny tag developed by Cellular ...

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The iconic North American monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus plexippus was recently listed in the IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species, signalling that its ongoing decline could lead to extinction.

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 ...

Think of a monarch butterfly, and a distinctive image pops up: black-and-orange wings, with a sprinkling of white spots around the black edges. Those white spots may actually help monarchs complete ...