Recently I’ve seen a few monarch butterflies, and soon the common milkweed plants that grow all over our native habitat area will be blooming. Milkweed is the monarchs’ host plant .

Female monarchs lay their eggs exclusively on milkweed plants, for which there are over 100 species in North America, and the caterpillars only eat milkweed leaves. Ecologist Lee Walston says, ...

Milkweed may seem like a weed because of its name, but it’s actually an incredibly important plant. The leaves of milkweed are the primary food source for monarch caterpillars. The flowers provide ...

Walton blames the use of herbicides and pesticides for the decline in the monarch butterflies. If cattle eat milkweed, it can ...

Ryan Pankau teaches ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander about milkweed Want to turn your yard into a butterfly haven? Planting ...

The Tennessee Department of Transportation is bringing back a popular program aimed at helping butterflies in celebration of National Pollinator Week.

It’s hard to overlook the brilliant orange and black wings of a monarch butterfly as it moves through a garden of flowers. It ...

International drama “Chrysalis” has wrapped principal photography in Vietnam and released first-look images from the production. The film, produced by Sir Daniel K. Winn’s and Randall J ...

Question: Recently I saw a news article about a milkweed species that is bad for monarch butterflies because it harbors a protozoan parasite that weakens the butterflies so they cannot complete ...

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Butterflies particularly like short, tubular flowers and daisy-shaped flowers—but are attracted to any blooms with bright colors and fragrances. Milkweed is a monarch butterfly's home base—where it ...