The plant grows quickly to two to four feet ... The alternative is to start common milkweed seeds indoors. Take into ...

Growing milkweed is one of the most rewarding actions ... If you prefer to start seeds indoors, stratify them by placing them ...

The goal of the Native Milkweed Project in San Antonio is to ... Use Bright Lights Swiss Chard as a featured plant in your vegetable garden this year. The stems and foliage are decorative, plus ...

Follow guidance on the seed packet or in the catalog. Fast-growing species and cool-weather crops don’t need to be started indoors. Fast-growing species and cool-weather crops don’t need to be ...

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

Milkweed and wildflowers may soon be a common sight growing around cornfields in an effort to help increase biodiversity in ...

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.

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 ...