"If they have arrived during an afternoon front, so rain coming through, any type of precipitation ... Brumfield encourages residents to plant native pollinators, like milkweed, aster, cone flower and ...
With vigorous debate surrounding the health of the monarch butterfly, new research may have answered the biggest question plaguing butterfly researchers. Why are the wintering populations declining ...
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.
Just as the monarch evolved as a milkweed specialist, OE infects only monarchs and a few other butterfly species. Deaths happened around the time the caterpillars were pupating or trying to emerge as ...