This is great news for the nearly-extinct monarch butterflies, which will pass through the area as they migrate back to ...

After 600 seeded containers of six native milkweeds and three years of classes, here's where the Native Milkweed Project in ...

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 ...

"Across the board ... everyone is on alert because that eastern population of monarchs has been dwindling by heavy percentages since the 1990s." The decline can be attributed, in part, to the loss of ...

OHIO, USA — The Ohio Pollinator Habitat Initiative (OPHI) is collecting milkweed pods due to the decline in the monarch butterfly population and its recent designation as an endangered species.

If you’ve never handled milkweed before, there’s a few things you should know about the native wildflower monarch caterpillars exclusively feed on. Milkweed contains toxins harmful to animals ...

“We have all of our local native plant growers here to try to get people to grow more milkweed and nectaring plants in general. They (monarchs) need nectar to have energy for their migration ...

Planting flowering plants—but not tropical milkweed—along the migration path won't hurt and may provide a source of nectar for traveling butterflies. "One of the best things people can do to ...

About a week ago, several monarch caterpillars were busily munching on the native narrowleaf milkweed I’d planted in my backyard in the San Francisco Bay Area to provide habitat for the imperiled ...

Rocio Santiago Aguilar (right) helped kids from TBOC (Taking Back Our Community) Church youth group and LaunchPAD Leadership Academy plant milkweeds seeds in W.W. Glover Cemetery in South Dallas ...