It’s hard to overlook the brilliant orange and black wings of a monarch butterfly as it moves through a garden of flowers. It’s also hard to believe that the life cycle of this incredibly colorful ...

The monarch butterfly life cycle begins with a whirl of wings in the heat of the summer sun. As a female monarch sips nectar from a wildflower, a male hovers nearby. A pheromone is released from tiny ...

When Canadian conservation enthusiasts head out to find monarch eggs, it’s always with a magnifying glass and a notebook. Hundreds of Canadian volunteers are taking part in a program to find monarch ...

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 few plants in the cabbage and mustard family pay a dramatic price to fend off hungry caterpillars: they kill off patches of their own leaves where butterflies have laid eggs. Deprived of a living ...