But Mackinac State Historic Parks personnel planted about 400,000 common milkweed plant seeds at the east end of Mackinac Island State Park airport in November, seeking to create crucial habitat ...

It's spring. When planning your garden, consider planting native milkweed. Monarch butterflies need our help. Adverse weather conditions in 2024, coupled with a steady and ongoing decline in ...

Monarch butterflies need our help. Adverse weather conditions in 2024, coupled with a steady and ongoing decline in milkweed, the sole food source for caterpillars, resulted in a 96 per cent reduction ...

Milkweed Market in Wisconsin Rapids will close its storefront on April 12th but will continue to operate online and at Aspirus Wisconsin Rapids Hospital. The closure will allow parent organization ...

Grow milkweed (Asclepias) to support monarch butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees while adding color, fragrance, and beauty to your landscape. You’ll find native milkweeds throughout North and ...

Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed monarch butterflies, whose numbers in the ...

Tropical Milkweed is a popular ornamental plant featuring bright orange and yellow flowers. It is often planted in yards to attract the iconic monarch butterfly, which lays its eggs on the ...

Biologists have curated the red milkweed beetle's genome and its arsenal of genes related to plant-feeding and other biological traits. They sequenced and assembled the entire genome of the host ...

We have been encouraging our backyard milkweed to grow ever since we moved over five years ago. I have friends who have issues with the aggressive growth of milkweed. We don’t have this problem.

In the past four months, I’ve become a loyal steward of narrow leaf milkweed. I've got other plants in my backyard, but none of them are as meticulously watched and cared for as this one.

But eight years later, a dazzling array of wildflowers grows there: coneflower, black-eyed Susan, bee balm, spiderwort, milkweed, goldenrod, blazing star and joe-pye weed. During a recent visit ...