This article offers essential guidance from Davidson College Professor Scott Villa for Carolina gardeners looking to support monarch butterflies. Native milkweed varieties like swamp milkweed ...

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Add ageratum plants to your flower garden and you'll attract monarch butterflies and many other pollinators. It's just like ...

Monarchs traveled to a remote part of Mexico, a journey they've made for thousands of years, and wintered there. Now tens of ...

The monarch butterfly population in the eastern United States has declined sharply — an estimated 80% loss since the 1990s. Among the factors contributing to the decline: Loss of habitat, exposure to ...

By any measure, the revival of the bald eagle stands as one of the great environmental triumphs in conservation history. In ...

Monarch butterflies are making their flight north after wintering in Mexico. Here's what to know about the fascinating, ...

Monarch butterflies are making their flight north after wintering in Mexico. Here's what to know about one of Earth's fascinating flyers in Michigan.

Monarchs are usually seen in Michigan from late spring to early fall.

Journey North, which gathers reports from volunteers across the country, has been tracking the butterfly’s movement since the ...

For thousands of years, millions of monarch butterflies have migrated from the northern U.S. and Canada to Mexico for the winter. But exactly how they know where to go is still a mystery.

feed, shelter, and rest throughout their life cycles, the U.S. FWS said. Monarch butterflies typically live from two to six weeks, with the exception of the last generation of the year (meaning ...