Promote collaborative conservation and respectful social engagement between the various constituencies (farmers, highway roadside landscapers, citizen scientists, ecological restorationists, conservation biologists, educators, naturalists, artists, writers and manufacturers) whose participation is required to ensure the continued presence of butterflies and their nectar plants in North America.
As the leaves change and the wind chills, you might have noticed an influx of bright orange, black-and-white spotted butterflies dancing in the breeze.
One of the joys of the season is the stunning sight of a monarch butterfly. One Long Island woman…
A recently published analysis of data on tagged monarch butterflies migrating from the United States to Mexico emphasizes the…
Better manage milkweeds and monarchs in the 31 million acres in the Conservation Reserve Program to protect their roosts, mating grounds and nectar resources from toxins and provide diverse habitat for these and other pollinators essential to food and fiber production.
Let’s hope all Americans become butterfly people once more, and work to co-design a more diverse, resilient, and equitable agricultural landscape for America’s future.
… Monarch butterflies were winging their way home for the winter. A peak experience for me.

As the leaves change and the wind chills, you might have noticed an influx of bright orange, black-and-white spotted butterflies dancing in the breeze.
Long Island Woman Raises Thousands Of Majestic Monarch Butterflies, Prepares Them For An Epic Flight
One of the joys of the season is the stunning sight of a monarch butterfly. One Long Island woman…
A recently published analysis of data on tagged monarch butterflies migrating from the United States to Mexico emphasizes the…
In a new study, Monarch Watch Director Chip Taylor and colleagues have shown that speculation regarding the declining monarch population, despite having received much attention, is unsupported.
Adriana Briscoe, a professor of biology and ecology at UC Irvine, studies vision in butterflies. Turns out, butterflies…