When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Jacky Parker Photography / Getty Images The plight of monarch butterflies is well known.

She gave us a small takeout bowl containing our three cats and a couple of swamp milkweed leaves. The cats were a centimeter long, at most, but even at that size, the characteristic yellow, black, and ...

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Oliver Hernandez poses with a common milkweed plant in his front yard in 2020. A tiny, young monarch caterpillar and even tinier monarch eggs are visible on the underside of a leaf. Across the Midwest ...

Monarch butterflies are afoot locally, according to staff at the Deschutes Land Trust, a local nonprofit that works to restore and preserve land tracts and waters that sustain central Oregon. Over the ...

It has been enjoyable to see all the monarch butterflies that migrated through the Concho Valley on their way to Mexico for the winter. It’s very inspiring and impressive to see insects that made it ...

All of us were taught in our elementary school science class about monarch butterflies and their caterpillar stage that only eats milkweed leaves. Other insects also eat milkweeds, but they are hardly ...

During a recent visit, Kells, who started the garden and now tends it with a crew of volunteers, gently turned over milkweed leaves, finally revealing a pale monarch butterfly egg — so small it was ...

Elizabeth Blackstone of West End Nursery, left, chats with customer Ann Brenner of Ross while Brenner selects a pair of native milkweed plants at West End Nursery in San Rafael on Tuesday, Aug. 30, ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — June 17 kicks off National Pollinator Week and the Tennessee Department of Transportation wants to help restore and preserve habitats of Monarch butterflies and other pollinators.