New research shows climate change may push monarch butterflies farther south and make their long migration harder in the ...

The monarch butterfly will not be saved by speeches or social media likes alone. It will be saved when communities decide to ...

Monarch butterflies that hatch in the spring and early summer live fast and die young at only two to six weeks. But those that emerge in late summer can survive six to nine months. That’s long enough ...

For years, home gardeners have been told to do one thing to save monarch butterflies: plant milkweed, the only plant monarch caterpillars eat. And for years, that’s what Linda Barber Auld, known as ...

Amid the eucalyptus groves at Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz, local bug enthusiast Sasha Hernandez squinted through the draping green leaves, searching for flashes of black and orange — the ...

Find out how climate change triggered the monarchs’ decline, the cons of raising them from caterpillars, and what you can do to help them. Modern Gardener is available to stream on pbs.org and the ...

The monarch butterfly, perhaps the most recognizable butterfly in North America, is in trouble: since the mid-1990s, their population has declined 90 percent from its 20-year average, and their ...