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Monarch butterfly on a person's finger - Matt Champlin/Getty Images Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) have long captivated humans due to their fascinating life cycles and physical characteristics ...

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 ...

Professor Elizabeth Crone, Department of Evolution and Ecology, checks a non-native milkweed in the San Francisco Bay Area for monarch butterfly eggs and caterpillars. Known for long-distance ...

Arkansas is a great place to spot monarch butterflies as it falls directly in their migration path! While monarch butterflies travel through Arkansas in both the spring (late March to April) and the ...

Amid the eucalyptus groves at Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz, local bug enthusiast Sasha Hernandez squinted through the draping green leaves, searching for flashes of black and orange — the ...

The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...

Every winter, millions of monarch butterflies journey thousands of miles across North America to spend winters in the forests and mountains of central Mexico. But over the years, the beloved butterfly ...