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 ...

MEXICO CITY (CN) — The yearly migration of monarch butterflies might best be described as a round-trip relay race. Multiple generations of butterflies are born, reproduce and die along the journey.

A monarch butterfly is ready to emerge from its chrysalis in the Kalispell garden of one of landscaper Kathy Ross' clients last August. (Photo by Kathy Ross) A monarch butterfly caterpillar, about two ...

PACIFIC GROVE — Longtime residents love to regale Natalie Johnston about the days when they had to sweep piles of western monarch butterflies off their front porches. They tell tales of teeming ...