Brad Grimm, a California-based monarch enthusiast and milkweed cultivator, gives away free milkweed seed packets — Speciosa for the western U.S.A. and Syriaca for the eastern U.S.A. — via an online ...

Milkweed is the only host plant of monarch butterflies ... the pods to be distributed for planting next year. If you want free milkweed seeds with planting instructions, you may pick them up ...

Studying the secrets of how the common red milkweed beetle can safely feed on a toxic plant helps illuminate the ecological, ...

Monarch butterfly numbers are dwindling and have been for decades. According to the Tennessee Department of Transportation, the pollinator's population and sole source of food and habitat ...

Although the relationship between the red milkweed beetle and milkweed plants has been studied for nearly 150 years, an Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station scientist recently joined ...

Milkweed is the only host plant of monarch butterflies, meaning it’s the only plant on which monarchs will lay eggs and eat. Milkweed also provides a food source for many other pollinators.

Although the relationship between the red milkweed beetle and milkweed plants has been studied for nearly 150 years ... We don't put up a paywall – we believe in free access to information of public ...

Attendees pick up their free plants at last year’s Milkweed and Cookies event. The group’s motto is: “Every yard, no matter how small, becomes part of the solution.” At the family-friendly ...

The group created a Facebook page called Morris Monarchs and shared a survey in online gardening groups, offering free milkweed seeds to anyone who wanted to plant them before the winter of 2021.

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 ...

“I left that conversation with my first milkweed plant and ‘The Drought Tolerant ... That enthusiasm has filled most of Anaya’s free time since she bought her house in early 2021.