As scientists stress the importance of providing as much of this valuable plant as possible, gardeners often ask: Does ...

Share articleTropical Milkweed is a popular ornamental plant featuring bright orange and yellow flowers. It is often planted ...

Treating bright orange aphids on milkweed isn't always needed, but these monarch-safe methods can help. Bright orange ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Ethnobiology Letters Vol. 10, No. 1, 2019 How Toxic is Milkweed when Harvested and... Asclepias syriaca L. (common milkweed) is known to contain ...

PETOSKEY, MI – Lauri Juday carries around little packets of common milkweed seeds and gives them to anyone who promises to plant them. That’s because monarch butterflies need native milkweed ...

Monarch butterflies need milkweed to survive and the upcoming month is the ideal time to plant it. “I have to start the seeds in the milk jug during the third week of December through the first ...

She called monarch butterflies a "canary in the coal mine" for pollinators and the ecosystem, a warning more needs to be done ...

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected the prostrate milkweed as endangered. Only 24 populations of the plant survive, in south Texas and northern Mexico, where ...

However, there’s a strong mission among ecologists to revive them. One technique is building monarch way stations, which are ...

And some spread their seeds being blown in the wind. A milkweed plant in full bloom in summer 2023. Note the many small florets. The first of the three purple flowers of July to develop and ...

Anne Stires is always doing something to improve the environment in Verona. Her latest? Collecting milkweed seeds from the ...