Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed monarch butterflies, whose numbers in the ...

State transportation departments should plant milkweed in highway ditches. This simple step could help save the continent's population of monarch butterflies. Milkweed is essential to the monarchs' ...

The orange and black Monarch butterfly is a well known and recognizable species. But in 2022, it was listed as endangered. As a group, these spectacular migratory creatures move about 2,485 miles ...

Grow milkweed (Asclepias) to support monarch butterflies, hummingbirds and bees while adding color, fragrance and beauty to your landscape. You’ll find native milkweeds throughout North and South ...

We all know milkweed is good for butterflies – particularly monarchs – but did you know that there are different types?

Monarchs, as caterpillars, prefer the leaves of milkweed. Milkweed produces glycoside toxins to deter animals from eating them, monarch have evolved immunity to these toxins. When they feed, monarch ...

Monarch butterfly caterpillars only eat leaves from the milkweed genus, Asclepias spp., so it’s critical for those butterflies that we try to grow as many of these plants as we can. Collecting ...

Patches of brush and vegetation newly awakened by spring split Larry Anderson’s Rifle backyard from a panorama view of the Roan Plateau. Situated within this bristly meadow was a carpet of flowering ...

Growing milkweed from seed is an easy way to make your garden a monarch landing zone.