Its stunning wings are bright orange-red and deep black veins run ... The first meal a larva will have is the milkweed leaf. When a monarch butterfly finds a new home, it will create a silk ...

A fritillary butterfly perches on blooming milkweed at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel ... Some well-known ...

Its bright-red blooms add a pop of color in the garden ... but it also hosts a dozen other species of butterfly larvae. Orange butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) is known for its large ...