The iconic monarch butterfly is declining across North America. You can help make a difference by providing the species with its food plant: milkweed. A monarch butterfly gliding over a field on ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Mary Ann Steeb loves her garden. “We just like to take care of the yard and the flowers and so we love the butterflies,” she said. Every day, she tends to her plants and carefully ...

The monarch butterfly life cycle begins with a whirl of wings in the heat of the summer sun. As a female monarch sips nectar ...

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This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Magnolia Montgomery, age 12, peered into a rectangular enclosure covered with ...

In Lafayette, Peggy Giglio has turned her backyard into the front lines of her efforts to help prevent the monarch butterfly's migratory collapse — and she's recruiting volunteers to help at every ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — U.S. wildlife officials announced a decision Tuesday to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies after years of warnings from environmentalists that populations are ...

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