The iconic monarch butterfly is declining across North America. You can help make a difference by providing the species with ...

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

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

The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in ...

Are you planning on starting seeds this spring? Before you wait much longer, you’ll want to see if any of your seeds fall on ...

Part of that is loss of habitat and the milkweed plants that are the butterflies’ primary food source, and another part is pesticide use. Fans of the monarch encourage folks to plant milkweed ...

They are drought-tolerant and come in a range of colors from purple to pink. 4. Asclepias (Milkweed): Aside from being a crucial host plant for monarchs, milkweed flowers provide ample nectar for many ...

They are drought-tolerant and come in a range of colors from purple to pink. 4. Asclepias (Milkweed): Aside from being a crucial host plant for monarchs, milkweed flowers provide ample nectar for many ...

Echoing our finding, other scientists conducted a genetic analysis in 2023 that also found no evidence of population decline in monarchs, or in common milkweed, the butterflies’ main larval host plant ...