During the summer, Elkton’s monarch butterflies outnumber town residents 3 to 1. This year, the Elkton Community Education ...

Saturday morning at Wilson Lake, a group of kids peer into a bag containing some monarch butterflies as they learn how to tag ...

Ready to explore more options for monarch butterflies beyond common milkweed? Whorled milkweed (Asclepias verticillata) is a ...

Stratford-upon-Avon Butterfly Farm is celebrating the amazing migration story of the ‘Monarch Butterfly’ and its associations ...

The annual migration of monarch butterflies ... As the butterflies pass through Oklahoma, they seek out milkweed plants, the sole food source for their caterpillars. These orange and black insects ...

Milkweed is the only plant that monarch caterpillars can consume and lay eggs on, so the plants are also crucial for reproduction. Wilson believes there were two generations of butterflies ...

Monarchs depend on milkweed plants to lay their eggs and for their caterpillars to feed on. The decline in milkweed due to agricultural practices and urban development is a significant threat to their ...

We might not notice, but the flight patterns of Monarch butterflies include stops in Muskogee. Turns out our climate and the rampant growth of the milkweed plant around here with its milky sap ...