It’s hard to overlook the brilliant orange and black wings of a monarch butterfly as it moves through a garden of flowers. It ...

Ryan Pankau teaches ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander about milkweed Want to turn your yard into a butterfly haven? Planting ...

Walton blames the use of herbicides and pesticides for the decline in the monarch butterflies. If cattle eat milkweed, it can ...

The suffering of monarch butterflies can be tied directly to the killing off of much of North America’s native milkweed stock. Advertisement The female butterfly lays her eggs only on various ...

Monarch eggs on a milkweed plant. CREDIT: Ursula Alvarado-Miller . “As they travel, they lay their eggs, and when those adults die, the next generation continues the migration northward,” said ...

Without milkweed, monarch butterflies would not be able to reproduce, shrinking their population.

Milkweed is beautiful, easy to grow, and necessary for butterflies to survive. Here's how to grow and care for milkweed the ...

Characteristics of urban milkweed gardens that influence monarch butterfly egg abundance. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution , 2024; 12 DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2024.1444460 Cite This Page : ...

Monarchs have been in decline for 20 years, spurring conservation efforts by scientists and everyday people, who grow milkweed in gardens, fields and parkways.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The monarch butterfly population in Ohio has declined by an estimated 80% over the past 30 years. One effort to reverse the trend is to promote more growth of native milkweed.

Citizen scientist Lorraine Kells finds small monarch butterfly eggs on milkweed in the monarch waystation near the Chicago Park District storehouse on Aug. 7, 2024. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune) ...

Wojciech Poreba inspects milkweed at Hamlet Park in Cottage Grove while looking for monarch butterfly eggs Wednesday afternoon Aug. 7, 2024. (Devanie Andre / Pioneer Press) Raising and releasing ...