Most U.S. gardeners already know that planting milkweed is one of the best ways to attract monarch ... What if you have the space in your beds or on your balcony but don't have the funds to buy new ...

However, it's essential to remember that milkweed is a wild plant, meaning it functions more like a weed than an ornamental plant you might buy at your local nursery. Most milkweed species thrive in ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I think you would be better off to buy some TifBlair seed and plant them in May. Q: Please help me with figuring out what is chewing on my hosta. It has big holes in the leaves, some of which are ...

“I left that conversation with my first milkweed plant and ‘The Drought Tolerant ... and she also offered tours through the Whittier Buy Nothing group. “If people were around on Saturdays ...