Growing milkweed from seed is an easy way to make your garden a monarch landing zone. Native milkweed is the only host plant that feeds the caterpillars of monarch butterflies, a threatened species.

Milkweed is the only plant monarch butterflies can lay their eggs on and feed from as caterpillars. Other beneficial plants for adult monarchs include zinnias, asters, coneflowers, and bee balm. Avoid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A female monarch butterfly collects pollen from a butterfly milkweed, Asclepias tuberosa, in South Texas. (Kirk Sides/Kirk ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A female monarch butterfly collects pollen from a butterfly milkweed, Asclepias tuberosa. Migrating monarch butterflies are ...

Milkweed is not just for monarchs! Native milkweed plants are a great addition to Colorado gardens. They are attractive flowering plants that, contrary to their name, are not at all weedy. There are ...

As we all strive to get our hands on every native milkweed for our states and to the ultimate benefit of the Monarch butterfly I thought I might plug its use for the other guys. Your first thought ...

It’s a sunny July afternoon, and Grayslake neighbors Annie Lawson and Heather Bauer are standing at the side of Lawson’s home, carefully going through her garden of milkweed plants. Lawson points at ...

Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) rely on milkweed plants in the genus Asclepias, which provide egg-laying sites, food, and toxic compounds that help to protect caterpillars and adult butterflies ...

A monarch butterfly perches on a flower on July 28, in a field near Little Long Pond in Seal Harbor. Credit: Courtesy of Aislinn Sarnacki “Mission Monarch complete,” I said, grinning as I emerged from ...

It’s migration season, and you might have seen (or heard) birds passing overhead or settling down in local wetlands for the winter. It’s not just migration time for birds, however. The western monarch ...

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 that monarch butterflies, whose numbers in ...