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

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

Pacific Grove is known as ‘Butterfly Town USA’ for its role as an overwintering spot. As the insect’s population plummets, residents are coming to its rescue ...

Great Neck's Cynthia Zhang and Massapequa's Gia Providente earned the 2025 Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes.

It is now the late season for butterflies in Goleta groves, and the picture is dismal. Only two butterflies were recorded in ...

For the first time in California, citizen scientists can join the effort to track monarch butterflies thanks to Blu+, a new ...

A monarch butterfly unable to launch was given a second chance after a rare wing transplant using donor wings from a deceased ...

With its charismatic appearance and awe-inspiring migrations, it's not surprising that the monarch butterfly motivates gardeners to provide extra care for these pollinators in their gardens. These ...

The annual migration south for monarch butterflies peaks in late September. Here's how to watch for the regal butterfly.

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 ...

A Camarillo nonprofit founder believes a monarch butterfly preserve could be located where mature eucalyptus trees were cut ...