Most blooms attract butterflies, but certain plants play a central role in their life cycles. Attract an abundance of ...

but we do know that milkweed plants contain a toxin called glycoside. Because of all this dining on the milkweed plant, monarch caterpillars and butterflies are known to be toxic to predators.

When oleander aphids infested tropical milkweed, monarch butterflies laid fewer eggs on the plant, and the caterpillars developing on those plants were slower to mature. The researchers will next ...

“Floral abundance is one of the strongest ways to promote bee diversity in gardens,” said Gail Langellotto, entomologist and ...

The plight of monarch butterflies is well known ... It thrives in spring, summer, fall and winter. Native milkweed plants, on the other hand, die back after they bloom. They also have flowers and lush ...

According to Shiloh Museum master gardener Marty Powers, this is because of the decreasing number of milkweed plants. The ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Central Texas is an important part of the Lone Start State for monarch migration because it is a principal breeding ground for the butterflies. They come north from Mexico in ...

If you love monarch butterflies, you’re in luck ... and creating habitat for monarchs by planting native milkweed and other nectar plants can help the species’ numbers. If you’d like ...

VERNON — Vernon is an entry point for monarch butterflies migrating north from their wintering grounds in Mexico. In June, a group of nature lovers got together on the back deck of Vermont Woods ...

In a statement to the Greenville News, SCWF Executive Director Sara Green said the organization started to get calls about where to find milkweed plants when the decline of monarch butterflies ...

The iconic North American butterfly's annual migration patterns are under threat from habitat loss and extreme weather, ...