You can support butterflies by doing these things: garden with natives and nectar plants; offer host plants; don’t use ...

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If you have harvested milkweed seeds from existing plants, the typical perennial varieties that need cold stratification include common milkweed, swamp milkweed, whorled milkweed, butterfly weed, and ...

The population of essential milkweed plants has decreased over the past decades. Help restore their numbers by collecting ...

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Oklahoma residents witness large monarch butterfly migrations; experts urge planting milkweed and reporting sightings to track populations.

Each fall, millions of monarch butterflies fly across Texas skies on their 3,000-mile journey to the mountains of central ...

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