While efforts taking place across the country to plant milkweed and help the monarchs is a wonderful cause, it is extremely important to make sure you’re not planting the wrong species of milkweed.

Monarchs rely on milkweed as the sole host plant for their caterpillars, and without it, their populations struggle to thrive ...

While milkweed is crucial for monarchs to lay their eggs, planting it near bird feeders draws predators that pose a threat to the butterflies at various stages of their lifecycle. Birds known to feed ...

Milkweed is the primary food source for the insect—and the only plant where the females lay their eggs. But in the US, vast quantities of milkweed have been wiped out by herbicides, agricultural ...

You can often smell its lovely fragrance before you see it. Common milkweed is a native perennial plant in the milkweed family. It commonly grows in sunny areas and ditches and is a primary part of ...

Learn how to grow the essential host plant for monarchs. Thirteen native species of milkweed are found across Canada. This fall, try incorporating milkweed into your garden to help native pollinators.

With this independent learning guide for youth in grades 3 and up, youth learn about Monarch butterfly feeding habits and take action to help them by making butterfly nectar and harvesting milkweed ...

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected the prostrate milkweed as endangered. Only 24 populations of the plant survive, in south Texas and northern Mexico, where ...