Habitat loss for this iconic black and orange butterfly, especially along its migratory routes, is devastating monarch populations. Help a winged friend out by planting milkweed. Just a few months ago ...

Dozens of volunteers spent Sunday creating Elysian Park’s first monarch butterfly habitat, planting some 200 milkweed plants. Western monarch populations in California have been dwindling for decades ...

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What’s special about milkweed? Milkweed (genus Asclepias) is the host plant, the only source of food, for the monarch caterpillar. If the monarch butterfly does not find milkweed, it will not lay any ...

There's only one plant that monarch butterflies feed on, and it's this affordable beauty Transforming your yard into an enchanting butterfly-filled haven is simpler than you think thanks to this ...

Most people that know me know that I am very passionate about protecting monarch butterflies. I do my best to encourage people to plant milkweed seeds, and I hunt monarch caterpillars and relocate ...

Tropical Milkweed is a popular ornamental plant featuring bright orange and yellow flowers. It is often planted in yards to attract the iconic monarch butterfly, which lays its eggs on the milkweed as ...

In 2020, around Thanksgiving, a total of fewer than 2,000 monarch butterflies were counted at around 250 overwintering sites where they have traditionally been counted in the state of California. A ...

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 ...

Maybe science has misunderstood the dining style of big monarch butterfly caterpillars. What insect watchers have called defense against the toxic latex a milkweed plant oozes may not be avoidance at ...

Late last month, 30 middle-school students in Queens, New York, planted 200 new milkweed plants at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge to provide habitat for one of America’s best-known insects, the ...