Mackinac Island features one of the nation's top butterfly gardens, per the USA TODAY 10BEST Readers' Choice Awards. Here's what to know.

CHARLEVOIX COUNTY -- A Northern ... the butterfly’s primary food source, milkweed, as well as nectar plants throughout their areas. Melrose Township is the fifth community in Michigan to be ...

A recent study by the Worldwide Fund has revealed a promising increase in the population of the eastern monarch butterfly, ...

BOYNE CITY — Northern Michigan monarchs now have an official nonprofit aiming to make the region a haven for the endangered butterfly. Michigan Butterfly Habitats was officially formed in early ...

Due to declining numbers, the migratory monarch butterfly was classified as an ... (It's) so easy, especially in Northern Michigan, to find seeds from the pods of the milkweed and you just spread ...

House Bill 5306, introduced earlier this month with more than 50 co-sponsors, would designate the Karner blue butterfly as the official butterfly of Michigan. It’s nothing new, of course.

The Original Mackinac Island Butterfly House & Insect World includes over 1,000 butterflies and over 20 insect, amphibian and reptile exhibits. The northern Michigan island is a popular summer ...