A few years ago I started a memorial butterfly garden for a son we lost during pregnancy. As I started to research butterfly gardens, I kept coming across articles about the drastic decline of the...

Throughout our first year of raising Monarchs in the garden, we had five Monarchs that successfully made it from egg to caterpillar to butterfly. While this number may not seem high, our garden was...

If you live in the United States or Canada, you've probably read or heard news stories about the drastic decline in Monarch butterflies migrating to Mexico in the fall. After reading some of those...

Growing up in the Midwest of the United States in the 1980s, I remember seeing Monarch Butterflies everywhere during the summer when I was a kid. It wasn't until after I started hearing and...

You know the age old question, "what came first, the chicken or the egg"? Well, the same question can be asked about butterflies. Monarch butterflies, and I assume all other butterflies, go through...