San Antonio classes teach gardeners to grow native milkweed, supporting monarch butterfly migration and population health.

What do milkweed, monarchs, and a Buffalo park event have in common? The answer may surprise you—and inspire you.

So while planting a few milkweed plants in your garden won’t bring back the butterfly population on its own, it can certainly help offset butterflies’ ongoing habit loss—especially if you refrain from ...

Despite some conservationists’ concerns, UC Davis researchers show that tropical milkweed has minimal impact on California monarch butterflies’ migratory patterns.

Petersen noted that while mowing might seem counterintuitive, overall environmental management sometimes means cutting plants ...

Milkweed can grow in a wide variety of environments from roadsides and abandoned lots to the edge of fields, meadows, and ...

Monarch butterfly numbers are down by 80% overall and remain just one-third the size needed to avoid migratory collapse.

For those of us in Pennsylvania, that means planting common milkweed, butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) and swamp milkweed (asclepias incarnata). Side note: for those who really love the look of ...

Native landscaping requires minimal maintenance, benefits the environment and, with a bit of acceptance, can be a thing of ...

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The monarch butterfly migration is one of the great wonders of the natural world. Every year, millions of them travel immense distances along predetermined monarch butterfly migration routes to escape ...