If you are interested in planting milkweed to help the monarch butterfly population recover, but are hesitant because of news stories of municipalities threatening to cut down milkweed gardens, there ...

NORTH HALEDON — Local environmentalists have taken a unique step toward saving the monarch butterfly by naming its favorite food the borough's official flower. Orange milkweed — or butterfly weed — ...

An international collaboration of researchers, including from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick, have sequenced the genome of the milkweed bug, enabling scientists to understand ...

This is not a drill. California is poised to lose the Western monarch butterfly and its mysterious annual migration from the continent’s Western regions to the coastal areas between Baja and Mendocino ...

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 ...

Also known as oleander aphids, milkweed aphids are not native to North America; they originated in the Mediterranean region. In their native land, these aphids primarily fed on oleander plants, but in ...

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 ...

Flying just above a sea of green grasses, a newly arrived female monarch scans the vegetation below for her vital host plant, the common milkweed. Dancing over each milkweed sprout she discovers, she ...

In 2020, around Thanksgiving, a total of fewer than 2,000 monarch butterflies were counted at around 250 overwintering sites where they have traditionally been counted in the state of California. A ...

Indiana has an Official Firearm, and yes, an Official State Pie. It also has a State Flower, of course—the peony. And now it may get a new State Wildflower, that vibrant orange pollinator-and-monarch ...

Milkweed plants purchased at retail nurseries across the United States were contaminated with pesticides harmful to monarch caterpillars that rely on milkweed. A monarch caterpillar feeds on orange ...