School educators and Scout leaders can enroll in Save Our Monarchs' Pollinator Garden Program to receive a free seed mix containing, among many other native flowering plants, common and butterfly ...

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

If you want to use milkweed to boost the butterfly activity in your yard, the best time to plant them is during the winter because the cold helps them germinate and grow faster. Not only do milkweed ...

“We wanted to sell plants and start butterfly gardens throughout ... Saturday’s sale will feature three types of milkweed, a native wildflower that provides a breeding habitat for butterflies ...

Use Bright Lights Swiss Chard as a featured plant ... available milkweed. As a neat aside, the garden staff counted 10 additional species of butterflies in the Certified Butterfly Garden in ...

Researchers have unlocked new insights into how the milkweed beetle thrives on toxic plants, shredding light on insect-plant ...

Colony estimates at central Mexico overwintering sites indicate that monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus ... and southern Canada) Loss of milkweed (Asclepiadaceae) host plants in the spring and summer ...

With music, food, games, fun and education, the festival celebrates the annual monarch butterfly ... sale. “We have all of our local native plant growers here to try to get people to grow more ...

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 ...

It’s getting colder out and a lot of plants are starting to dry out and wilt away, but there’s things you can do to help ...

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 ...

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 ...