Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed monarch butterflies, whose numbers in the ...

The iconic monarch butterfly is declining across North America. You can help make a difference by providing the species with its food plant: milkweed. A monarch butterfly gliding over a field on ...

Monarch butterflies, for example, only lay their eggs on milkweed, and milkweed is all monarch caterpillars can eat. Without ...

The monarch butterfly, known for its bright orange patterned wings, is in the middle of its migration from the northern U.S.

PETOSKEY, MI – Lauri Juday carries around little packets of common milkweed seeds and gives them to anyone who promises to plant them. That’s because monarch butterflies need native milkweed plants to ...

Each summer, monarch butterflies begin an extraordinary journey. They travel 3,000 miles across parts of the U.S. and Canada all the way to central Mexico. Undeniably, an impressive feat, and one of ...

These amazing creatures spend their summers mating and pollinating in the southern parts of Canada and northern United States ...

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, milkweed, ...

Tropical Milkweed is a popular ornamental plant featuring bright orange and yellow flowers. It is often planted in yards to attract the iconic monarch butterfly, which lays its eggs on the milkweed as ...

It’s a sunny July afternoon, and Grayslake neighbors Annie Lawson and Heather Bauer are standing at the side of Lawson’s home, carefully going through her garden of milkweed plants. Lawson points at ...

You see monarch caterpillars, you see monarch butterflies — but why don't you see a monarch chrysalis? Here's what makes them ...