The great annual movements of fall include monarch butterflies winging toward Mexico, whales heading to the Caribbean to give ...

A migration journey of a thousand miles (or more) starts with lots of monarch butterfly flowers. Grow these nectar flowers ...

Guests wandered through rows of flowering bushes and art vendors, making their way to where Welch stood beneath a canopy of ...

Waystations promote spring and summer breeding for monarch butterflies by providing milkweeds and nectar sources that are ...

Becoming our state insect wouldn’t give the regal fritillary any new conservation statuses or protections, though Iowa’s ...

On the slopes of a volcano in central Mexico, biologist Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero and his team envision a climate refuge for oyamel fir trees and the monarch butterflies that depend on them.

As temperatures get colder and the nights get longer, the natural world around us goes through many changes, both seen and ...

A mother will teach her children many things. This is no different in nature. In the Grand Prize shot (seen below) from the ...

Mimicry in animals is a common form of protection from predators. For instance, two distasteful or toxic butterflies may ...

(Courtesy of Cody Chaplain) Cindy Morrison photographed a monarch butterfly sipping nectar from zinnia flowers in the Reunion ...

Within my first few weeks on campus, walking back from class, I saw a monarch butterfly on the sidewalk. It had been stepped ...

Along with reading and history, around 500 hundred of West Michigan students are spending their class time learning how to become "Habitat Heroes" in the Grand Rapids area.