It's spring. When planning your garden, consider planting native milkweed. Monarch butterflies need our help. Adverse weather conditions in 2024, coupled with a steady and ongoing decline in ...

Monarch butterflies require milkweed plants as egg-laying sites, but they also migrate long distances every spring and fall, and the route from Mexico to Canada passes through the San Antonio area.

Monarch butterflies are migrating through San Antonio, laying eggs on milkweed, while other species like the Gulf fritillary ...

Milkweed is the sole host plant for monarch butterflies, meaning monarch caterpillars rely on it for survival. Planting milkweed ensures a steady presence of these iconic butterflies while ...

Take, for example, milkweed. After declining monarch ... If, like me, you regularly snap photos of the butterflies in your garden or on walks in your neighborhood, open them and search online ...

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 ...

"The proposed rule includes species-specific protections and flexibilities to encourage conservation of the butterfly under section 4(d) of the ESA." Monarchs lay their eggs on milkweed plants and ...

Central New York is set to welcome a remarkable natural event this spring as millions of monarch butterflies begin their ...