Jason Hoover's porch is lined with mesh cages for monarchs. (Cris Barrish/WHYY) “Oh Mike, look! Your butterfly just emerged,” Jason Hoover calls to Mike Yingling across their connected porches in ...

Hundreds of butterflies drifted and floated about inside the large enclosure, sometimes resting on the walls, which are made ...

Magnolia Montgomery, age 12, peered into a rectangular enclosure covered with white mesh. Inside are milkweed branches. Caterpillars are slowly crawling on the leaves, some the size of a grain of rice ...

Much has to go right to keep the intricate and precarious life cycle of the monarch butterfly turning. For starters, there is the migration, a six-month process that takes successive generations to ...

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 ...

If you grew up in North Central Florida, you might remember seeing more monarch butterflies compared to now. Their bold orange wings outlined with black and white spots were a familiar sight during ...

The latest winter survey of western monarch butterflies has delivered a mixed picture for conservationists. Annual counts carried out across California's coast and nearby inland sites found a small ...

Scientists are using tiny solar-powered devices to track endangered monarch butterflies. Researchers are studying how these butterflies use their overwintering habitats and nectar sources. The ...