Shelley Ramey of Lake Township is actively working to protect the monarch butterfly population in her backyard 'condo' system.

While eating milkweed, monarch caterpillars grow 3,000 times their original weight. They go through several instars (growth stages), shedding their skin multiple times.

A pollinator admired for its beauty and migratory endurance, monarch butterflies are being proposed for addition as an ...

The different reactions on our parts are based on what we deem worthy events. Monarch caterpillars can only eat milkweed, and monarch butterflies are at risk. So when we plant milkweed, we want to see ...

Not including animals like the bald eagle or Eastern bluebird, the monarch butterflies have garnered much interest in people.

Aided by nature enthusiast Deb Steinberg, about a dozen monarch butterflies began their migration to central Mexican forests at Woodstone Senior Living Thursday. Steinberg and a couple of her ...

Monarch butterflies are unique, partly because they’re the only butterflies known to make a round-trip migration over thousands of miles. Each fall, as the days become shorter in the northern ...

The public is invited to help monarch butterflies begin their 2,000-mile migration to Mexico from the shores of Lake Michigan on Labor Day.