Thousands of seeds are floating across fields this month, like tiny paratroopers dangling from silky parachutes. They're milkweed seeds, launched from ripe seed pods. If they land on target, new ...

Florida is home to 22 types of native milkweeds - the plant everyone wants to buy to help save the monarch butterfly - but good luck finding them in local stores. You'll find lots of milkweed for sale ...

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 ...

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. Want to do your part to help reverse the dramatic ...

Monarch Watch is giving away free milkweed plugs to schools and other educational nonprofit organizations to create and support habitat for monarchs and pollinators. Schools or nonprofit educational ...

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'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 ...

Look closer and you'll discover a thriving world of wonder on each milkweed plant you find along your late summer and fall journeys. Milkweed is well known as a must-have plant for attracting monarchs ...

Volunteers from Audubon Rockies, the Loveland Initiative for Monarch Butterflies and Walt Clark Middle School students worked with city staff Saturday morning to plant 2,000 milkweed plants at River’s ...

To the editor: As you note in your editorial, planting milkweed is critical to support the return of the monarch butterfly, since milkweed is the only plant that monarch caterpillars eat. Even more ...

Higher temperatures may make monarch butterflies more vulnerable to parasites, according to new research from the University ...