Creating a haven for monarch butterflies in your backyard is more than just a joy for the eyes—it’s a crucial way to support ...

Providing beautiful blooms for monarchs not only adds to the beauty of your garden but helps support their population. Here are some of their favorite flowers.

While not well-known among gardeners, beggarticks (Bidens spp.) flowers are highly popular among monarch butterflies. There are many beggarticks species that are native to the United States.

We’ve endangered these creatures, as we humans often do, and some scientists want monarchs on the official endangered list.

File: Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) on a milkweed plant flower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on July 08, 2022. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images) ...

One example of this is the eastern monarch butterfly. The butterfly's population crept down to the second-lowest number on record in 2024, according to an annual survey from the World Wildlife ...

Hot, humid weather continues, making garden work hard to take. However, it is still a good time to take a walk or ride through the gardens to marvel at the ...

National Plant a Flower Day 2024 is on March 12th. You can celebrate by planting any flower but milkweeds will help the monarch butterfly grow.

While the butterflies wintered in Mexico, the organization found that the eastern monarch butterfly colonies took up 2.2 acres of regional forests during the 2023-2024 winter season.