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 — ...

With its charismatic appearance and awe-inspiring migrations, it's not surprising that the monarch butterfly motivates gardeners to provide extra care for these pollinators in their gardens. These ...

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 ...

Gardeners are scrambling to help the threatened monarch butterfly by planting more milkweed, the insect's host plant. Drought, loss of habitat and pesticides have decimated stands of milkweed along ...

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 ...

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 ...

QUICK, WHAT COMES to mind when you hear “aphids”? To rose lovers, aphids are tiny bright green bugs that turn gardens ugly by chewing holes in otherwise healthy leaves and buds. Butterfly enthusiasts ...