Do your part to support declining monarch butterfly populations by planting these free milkweed seeds ... Once your seedlings have a few sets of leaves, harden them off and transplant them ...

Butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) is one of the tamer milkweeds with lots of ornamental appeal. This adaptable milkweed is hardy in zones three to ten and was named the 2017 Perennial Plant ...

How many gardeners that grew milkweed experienced use by monarchs or other butterfly species last year? Do they know what species the other butterflies were? What were the specifics of the ...

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 ...

Just as monarchs famously prefer milkweed for food and egg-laying, swallowtail butterflies also have a preferred food as ...