LOS ANGELES - March 21 is National Flower Day, and to celebrate, folks can plant some milkweed and start a pollinator garden to help the dwindling numbers of monarch butterflies. According to an ...

A Camarillo nonprofit founder believes a monarch butterfly preserve could be located where mature eucalyptus trees were cut ...

A sign welcomes people into the Ellwood Monarch Butterfly Grove. A management plan lays out the work the city needs to do to improve the butterfly habitat, reduce wildfire risk and improve public ...

Butterfly Weed or Asclepias tuberosa is one of the foundational plants of a pollinator garden in North America. These rapidly ...

Across North America, monarch butterfly populations will begin their journey southward to warmer winter climates in Mexico, travelling across much of the United States, including Oklahoma, along their ...

Pacific Grove is known as ‘Butterfly Town USA’ for its role as an overwintering spot. As the insect’s population plummets, residents are coming to its rescue ...

While I suspect the majority of people here in Texas have seen a monarch butterfly, most probably don’t know that they make ...

Editor’s note: The Wild is all about featuring a variety of exciting voices from SoCal’s outdoors scene. For the next several weeks, that voice will belong to Times staff writer Lila Seidman. A native ...

The tips of cylindrical leaves in the stand of eucalyptus trees in Bolinas looked as though they were dipped in flames. Upon closer inspection, the flashes of orange seemingly everywhere were the ...

The number of Monarch butterflies hibernating in Mexican forests decreased by 22% last year, and the number of trees lost from their favored wintering grounds tripled, according to an annual report ...