CHICAGO (WCIA) — A new study finds anyone with a green thumb, urban or rural, can help save the population of a beloved insect. Scientists are worried for monarch butterflies, the orange and black ...

Perhaps you’ve read about and noticed the declining numbers of monarch butterflies? If you’d like to help, and you want to attract more monarchs to your garden, consider adding milkweed (Asclepias spp ...

It’s garden planning time. If planning a flower garden to attract monarch butterflies, there’s interesting research from the University of Kentucky about placement of milkweed in gardens. The research ...

When artist Shawn Hall took a close look at the flowering plants in Crescent Park, she noticed something that made her curious. “I was looking at the milkweed and there was a monarch caterpillar on it ...

When Lorraine Kells first came upon these two sprawling Chicago Park District flower beds near Diversey Harbor, she saw weeds and cigarette butts. But eight years later, a dazzling array of ...

(CN) - Cities will grow exponentially in decades to come, and while wildlife conservation has seldom factored into city planning, a pair of studies found Thursday that urban centers can play a key ...

What’s special about milkweed? Milkweed (genus Asclepias) is the host plant, the only source of food, for the monarch caterpillar. If the monarch butterfly does not find milkweed, it will not lay any ...

Milkweed, Asclepias species, attracts butterflies to your garden. It also attracts other insects that you may not want. My milkweed plants, Asclepias fascicularis, were covered with aphids this summer ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." This perennial herb (yep, this pretty flowering plant is technically an herb) should be on every gardener ...

If you are planting milkweed to attract monarch butterflies, you are already ahead of the game. But even the most well-meaning gardeners can make critical mistakes when planting milkweed that may send ...

What exactly is a “weed?” From a gardener’s point of view, a weed is simply a plant growing where you don’t want it. Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American poet and philosopher who lived from 1803-82, said ...

On a recent warm afternoon, a monarch butterfly landed on a milkweed flower growing at the Elizabethan Gardens on Roanoke Island. The monarch’s orange and black wings opened and closed slowly as it ...