While many circumstances factor into the calculation, researchers found in a new study that local predators, not appearance ...

You see monarch caterpillars, you see monarch butterflies — but why don't you see a monarch chrysalis? Here's what makes them tricky to find.

When creatures up the food chain consume a monarch, they suffer anything from diarrhea to cardiac arrest. In the animal ...

Most of us – by the time we reach high school – have learned about the monarch butterfly tasting bad to predators because it ...

The animal world is incredibly colorful, and behind this color palette is a constant game of survival.

Monarch butterfly numbers are declining, but people like Lorene and Robert Miller of Plain City are helping in a major way.

Inside a storage shed on his Frederick County farm, Haines had 13 monarch butterflies that were ready to be released. They ...

Monarchs traveled to a remote part of Mexico, a journey they've made for thousands of years, and wintered there. Now tens of millions of the butterflies are on an epic aerial journey back north.

On a warm summer morning, you’re sitting in your yard enjoying a slow moment, when a flash of color catches your eye. Bright orange and black wings dance through the air before alighting on a purple ...

Milkweed plants, classified under the genus Asclepias, have been present in ecosystems and human history for many years.

Milkweed is beautiful, easy to grow, and necessary for butterflies to survive. Here's how to grow and care for milkweed the ...