Last weekend, Salisbury had a hand in one of the largest natural migrations taking place across the U.S., and it happened in ...

Yarn bombing for monarch butterflies? The David Suzuki Foundation called on Canadians to knit cozy cocoons for vulnerable monarch butterfly caterpillars and hang them in trees Wednesday. “Now that ...

In the wild only 2%-10% of the eggs laid will become mature butterflies. Those numbers can improve to 80%-95% if we provide safe places away from their predators for them to feed and pupate. The ...

In early January, costume designer and monarch butterfly enthusiast Romy McCloskey, found that one of her butterflies emerged from its cocoon with a damaged wing. A few weeks later, her cat had ...

TAMPA — It was all by accident. Donna Christian planted some scarlet milkweed in the backyard of her Davis Islands home last month to attract a few butterflies. Gardening was a hobby she had just ...

I found this on butterfly weed that I planted to help Monarch butterflies. Lots of butterfly caterpillars have been munching on the leaves this summer. Is this what I hope it is — a cocoon soon to be ...

Spending time in a beautiful garden can be transformative. In fact, some visitors to the Smithsonian’s Mary Livingston Ripley Garden in Washington, D.C., have taken this quite literally. Throughout ...

Rosette Vincente’s face broadens in a wide smile as the monarch butterflies flutter from flower to flower in her Anaheim habitat garden. She fingers the slender leaves of the milkweed searching for ...