It's been running for over 20 years and offers free common, showy, swamp, butterfly, and narrow-leaved milkweed seeds to ...

Monarch butterflies are facing habitat loss and environmental challenges, but milkweed plants are essential for their survival. Different species of milkweed thrive in various environments, so choose ...

Storms, wind and rain can totally shatter seed heads. Other plants have seeds that are dispersed by the wind. Milkweed seeds with their prominent parachutes are the most well known of wind-blown ...

Changing and falling leaves are a sure sign of fall, and so are milkweed seed pods starting to dry out in preparation of being harvested. Milkweed is the only host plant of monarch butterflies ...

An overwhelming response led to the distribution of 780,000 milkweed seed packets in 2023, an effort that sought to restore landscapes and preserve habitats for pollinator species. However ...

The goal of the Native Milkweed Project in San Antonio is to figure out which of six native milkweed species is the easiest to grow, what are the most successful growing techniques, and which is ...

OPHI is seeking public participation in collecting and dropping off mature common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) seed pods at collection stations around the state. The collected seeds will be used ...

NARRATOR: A seed contains everything a new plant needs to start growing. The moment a seed starts to grow is called ‘Germination’. Some people plant seeds in pots or in gardens to germinate.

Biologists have curated the red milkweed beetle's genome and its arsenal of genes related to plant-feeding and other biological traits. They sequenced and assembled the entire genome of the host ...