For a naturalist, living in Texas definitely has its share of fringe benefits. The diversity of the flora and fauna that can be observed here is nothing short of amazing. One of the amazing feats of ...

On the surface, it was just a simple lesson about the life cycle of the monarch butterfly, a celebration of the last step in a journey toward freedom, of sorts — their migration to Mexico. Under the ...

PACIFIC GROVE — Monarch butterfly numbers are down this year entering prime counting season, but experts aren’t panicking yet. “Butterfly populations are bouncy,” said Isis Howard, an endangered ...

A Long Island nature center gave a monarch butterfly a new wing, allowing it to continue its migration this winter.

A monarch butterfly caterpillar dines on a swamp milkweed leaf on Aug. 26 in Orlan Love’s Quasqueton garden. It was one of ...