Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish ...

It's estimated that we need as many as 1.8 billion more milkweed plants across the U.S. to help save the monarch butterfly.

It can be one of the last plants to emerge in the spring. Don’t give up. It will eventually come up, then quickly grow and set blooms. Butterfly milkweed begins flowering in June, and the ...

ALEXANDRIA — The National Garden Bureau has named 2025 the Year of Asclepias (milkweed) — and for good reason. This resilient ...

In 2023, more than 16,000 butterflies were counted at one local grove. The most recent count was a tiny fraction of that.

She began "Project: Monarch" in 2014 with a mission to become Louisiana's milkweed seed distributor and installed butterfly gardens in 17 schools. Now, she is spearheading the renewal of the Frank ...

Colony estimates at central Mexico overwintering sites indicate that monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) populations have declined over the past two decades. Among the leading causes of this ...

The monarch butterfly population spending the winter in the western United States has declined to its second-lowest level in nearly three decades.