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

Milkweed is famed for being an important plant for the Monarch butterfly, and it may surprise you to know that late fall is an ideal time to start perennial varieties by sowing outdoors. It does work ...

Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) is a perennial plant that serves as a vital host for monarch butterflies, offering food and shelter for monarch caterpillars. This fast-growing native plant can ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is good news about the monarch butterfly migration this year. It looks like the number of butterflies that made it to their overwintering grounds in Mexico has nearly doubled compared to last ...

WILLMAR--The monarch butterfly is a welcome summer visitor to Minnesota, but in the past few years the butterfly population has suffered severe setbacks. Weather, lack of habitat in its wintering ...

CLECELAND, Ohio -- Matt, a reader from Broadview Heights, sent me an email and a photo last month and wrote, “I was out walking my dog and I saw these plants. Are they milkweed pods, and if so, can I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A swallowtail butterfly feeds on a milkweed flower - Georgia Evans/Shutterstock Wildlife-friendly gardeners are no strangers to ...

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' ...

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 ...