Kathy Schrenk ANSWER: I don't think it would hurt to follow the advice of the article and cut your Mexican milkweed back hard in early December. I would do this in an abundance of precaution ...

Mexican milkweed is safe to grow for monarchs in North Texas, experts say, but from San Antonio southward, it could harbor spores dangerous to monarchs over the winter. (Jane Breckinridge - AP ...

Tropical milkweed, asclepias curassavica, also known as bloodflower and Mexican milkweed, is a South American native. Tropical milkweed grows 30-36 inches high and produces clusters of bright ...

Note, they required daily watering. Please Also Note: Tropical milkweed also called Mexican milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) is available at many retail nurseries but is not native to the U.S ...

keeps that milkweed toxin inside of its body. It causes many predator birds to avoid the monarch, Dykehouse said. Monarchs covered nearly 21 hectares of the Mexican over-winter grounds in the ...

The goal of the Native Milkweed Project in San Antonio is to ... and New Braunfels area on their migration to and from their Mexican wintering grounds. We have hosted three years of classes ...

If you have milkweed growing in your yard and there ... cedar elm, red oak, Mexican sycamore, Mexican white oak, bur oak, chinkapin oak and Montezuma cypress. For success from lawn grass, mow ...

While planting milkweed in your garden will not have an immediate effect on the numbers, it can help in the long run. You will also be helping those monarchs who will be migrating back to the ...

Area gardeners report that the attractive butterfly with the complicated life has laid eggs and the caterpillars have consumed enough foliage from existing Mexican milkweed and some antelope horn ...

The female monarch lays eggs on the milkweed plant; they develop into ... of miles to their wintering grounds in a small patch of Mexican forest. A secondary population summers in Arizona ...

Their decline is attributed to herbicide use in the U.S., resulting in the loss of milkweed, climate variation in North America, and forest degradation in the butterfly's Mexican reserve.