A successful butterfly garden has two main components: nectar plants for adult butterflies and host plants for caterpillars. Nectar plants provide the necessary sustenance for butterflies, while host ...

Late last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took an important step toward putting the monarch butterfly on the ...

Captive-raising monarchs in cages also puts the butterflies at risk. The OE parasite can reach very high levels in indoor ...

A rare tiny butterfly found only in a remote stretch of Northern Nevada will soon gain federal protections under the ...

Usefully, the listing would legally protect the groves of trees near the California coast where western monarchs overwinter.

Now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to add the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) to the nation's list of threatened ... milkweed and nectar plants, even in small areas, can ...

10 that it plans to add the monarch butterfly to the list of threatened species under the Endangered Species Act ... the spraying of insecticides and the spread of non-native milkweed plants replacing ...

The hungry larvae of butterflies are selective in choosing the plants they eat. This reflects the fact that the evolution of both plants and the animals that feed on them is a counterpoint of ...

The main basis for the proposal to list monarchs as threatened ... in monarchs or in common milkweed, the butterflies’ main larval host plant. They did this by comparing observed patterns ...