Citizen scientists are called on to help with tagging monarch butterflies and find out why their numbers are dropping.

Good choices include: Perennials: Coneflowers, black-eyed Susans, Shasta daisies. Herbs: Sage, thyme, oregano. Native plants: Milkweed, lupine. Vegetables: Leafy greens like kale, Swiss chard, lettuce ...

Lir, who had been searching for his children, came down to the lake and saw Fionnuala, now a swan, who told him of a spell cast on them by Aoife. Enraged, he banished Aoife into the mist ...

These plants will provide food sources for caterpillars and sites for egg-laying and chrysalis formation, making your yard the perfect place for butterflies to settle down. DM / Flickr / CC BY-ND 2.0 ...

People and farmers could continue to remove milkweed, a key food source for monarch caterpillars, from their gardens, backyards and fields but would be prohibited from making changes to the land ...

One reason monarchs have struggled is that their primary food source, milkweed plants, is disappearing. Milkweed once commonly grew in rural areas across the nation but new herbicides, development ...

The official state insect of Texas is in trouble. The monarch butterfly, long idolized for its epic migrations and delicate beauty, is facing another alarming chapter in its decline. Volunteers ...

The common milkweed, a native prairie plant, is visited by large milkweed ... now covering less than one percent of their original habitat. The Swan Road Prairie in Mequon is 20 acres of prairie ...

By Jancee Dunn I was on the phone with a friend the other day, and because I can’t sit still, I started to dust the leaves on my sprawling bird of paradise plant. This is nice, I thought ...

Milkweed, the common name of the genus Asclepias, is an incredibly popular and diverse native plant that grows across the United States, from the Northeast to the Great Lakes to the Southwest. If you ...

A former ballerina convicted of killing her husband in the notorious "Black Swan" murder case, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday, and her stepdaughter condemned her in an emotional ...

A flotilla of traditional Thames rowing skiffs, manned by Swan Uppers in scarlet rowing shirts and headed by The King’s Swan Marker, wearing a hat with a white swan’s feather, row their way steadily ...