As July sunlight pokes through the trees, a butterfly egg rests gently in Wojciech Poreba’s palm as he sifts through milkweed leaves at Hamlet Park in Cottage Grove. At age 25, Poreba has four years ...

Milkweed plants in agricultural areas have 3 1/2 times more monarch butterfly eggs than milkweed growing in urban gardens, natural areas and roadsides, according to a new study. The researchers also ...

It isn’t the same as the U.S. Department of the Interior declaring a species endangered, but the International Union of Conservation of Nature, or IUCN, has declared the migrating populations of ...

Researchers and community scientists monitored urban milkweed plants for butterfly eggs to learn what makes these city gardens more hospitable to monarchs. They found that even tiny city gardens ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X KINGSTON >> Like nearly every child who grew up in the country, Toni Weidenbacher whiled away her ...

We have conducted a number of monarch butterfly and milkweed classes over the last three years. The classes hosted over 450 attendees and distributed 900 milkweed seeded containers to gardeners in the ...

Monarchs, as caterpillars, prefer the leaves of milkweed. Milkweed produces glycoside toxins to deter animals from eating them, monarch have evolved immunity to these toxins. When they feed, monarch ...

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 ...

Marvelous Monarchs: The butterflies are free - all you need is patience and milkweed George Carlin once observed that "the caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity." Not ...