#Monarch butterfly

Author: Susan Milius / Source: Science News The monarch butterfly isn’t the only insect flying up and down North America in a mind-boggling annual migration. Tests show a big, shimmering dragonfly takes at least three generations to make one year’s migratory loop. Ecologist Michael Hallworth and

Author: Susan Milius / Source: Science News Climate change could make a showy invasive milkweed called a bloodflower even more of a menace for monarch butterflies than it already is. Monarch caterpillars, which feed on plants in the milkweed family, readily feast on Asclepias curassavica.

Depending what time of year they’re born, Monarch butterflies can live from 2 weeks to about 5 months, but this guy’s time was threatened to be cut even shorter. Luckily, Romy McCloskey was there to help. “I fell into raising butterflies by accident when I found 3 caterpillars on a bush in my front

Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network Several years later, however, the government has ensured that the insects are flourishing, thanks to their crack down on illegal logging. According to the Mexican office of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the country’s newest

Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network Jerry Garcia passed away 22 years ago, but the legacy of the lead singer of the Grateful Dead lives on in a new effort to boost wild honeybee and monarch butterfly populations. Embarking on a summer tour across America, Dead & Company, the