Thousands of seeds are floating across fields this month, like tiny paratroopers dangling from silky parachutes. They're milkweed seeds, launched from ripe seed pods. If they land on target, new ...

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 ...

The Midwest needs to plant milkweed, and a lot of it, over the next 18 years to ensure monarch butterflies survive, preferably in sufficient numbers to sustain their phenomenal migration. In Illinois, ...

Prostrate milkweed. (Sam Kieschnick, Sam Kieschnick via The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) SAN ANTONIO – The prostrate milkweed plant that grows in South Texas and aids pollinators has been listed as ...

Across the Midwest, some city codes threaten people with fines for having milkweed on their property. But experts say many places have dropped those rules to support monarchs with urban and suburban ...

Oliver Hernandez poses with a common milkweed plant in his front yard in 2020. A tiny, young monarch caterpillar and even tinier monarch eggs are visible on the underside of a leaf. Across the Midwest ...

Most gardeners recognize milkweed immediately as a butterfly attracter, but there’s a complex community that revolves around this prolific plant that extends well beyond the monarch. Milkweed may ...

Planting or allowing a few milkweed plants to grow in residential yards, parks, and empty lots, along roadsides and boulevards, as well as on school, church, and commercial properties, could play a ...

There's only one plant that monarch butterflies feed on, and it's this affordable beauty Transforming your yard into an enchanting butterfly-filled haven is simpler than you think thanks to this ...

Look closer and you'll discover a thriving world of wonder on each milkweed plant you find along your late summer and fall journeys. Milkweed is well known as a must-have plant for attracting monarchs ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. If you think there are fewer monarch butterflies fluttering about, you’re ...

People who love to see butterflies would argue that if there ever was a plant that didn’t deserve to have the word “weed” in its name, it’s milkweed. “Weed” is a term usually used to describe plants ...