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 ...

Wildlife-friendly gardeners are no strangers to milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa), one of the plants that will fill your garden with a variety of butterflies. While known particularly for its important ...

"That egg-laying moment is so rare to actually witness. Lucky catch." ...

Monarch butterfly caterpillars only eat leaves from the milkweed genus, Asclepias spp., so it’s critical for those butterflies that we try to grow as many of these plants as we can. Collecting ...

Even with that advantage, the creator said gardeners should not treat common milkweed as the only way to support monarchs.  The gardener warned that common milkweed can be hard to contain, saying it ...

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"Milkweed gardens can be in all shapes and sizes, and any milkweed garden can contribute habitat for monarchs." Monarch butterflies have one of the most unusual and demanding migration patterns of any ...

Q: My milkweed has orange bugs on its seed pods. Are they harmful? No, they’re not going to damage the plant enough to warrant intervention. These are native insects, and they are part of the ...

"Sometimes they can wiggle free. Other times they can't." ...