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 ...

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 ...

You can help make a difference by providing the species with its food plant: milkweed. A monarch butterfly gliding over a field on outstretched wings is one of the most beautiful images of summer.

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 ...

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 ...

Many weeds actually have beautiful flowers and have become popular in landscaping. So, is milkweed an unwanted plant or does it have many virtues? There are about 200 species of milkweed around ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Plentiful patches of milkweed provided monarchs with safe havens ... Since their overwintering sites in the Mexican mountains were discovered in 1975, monarchs have become one of the most studied ...