To control milkweed plants and stop them from aggressively spreading, plant varieties that are less invasive or use root ...

This plant, butterfly milkweed or Asclepias tuberosa, currently is in its full summer beauty. Butterfly milkweed is a native plant that is tough as nails in the garden. Since the plant is a native ...

In 2020, students at Kate Starr Kellogg Elementary in Chicago collected seeds from the milkweed plants in their school garden ...

The land all around was charred, but here native milkweed plants had sprouted back up just weeks after the fire. DON HANKINS: Their flowering period in this location is usually the later part of ...

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 ...

Among the leading causes of this long-term trend are: Deforestation and forest degradation in the butterfly's overwintering sites Climate change punctuated by episodic extreme weather conditions in ...

Lots of plants rely on insects like bees to reproduce. To make a seed, a flower needs to be pollinated. This means that pollen from one flower needs to travel to another. Bees are very important ...

Although the relationship between the red milkweed beetle and milkweed plants has been studied for nearly 150 years, an Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station scientist recently joined ...

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 ...

The department’s 2024 Milkweed Giveaway kicked off during National Pollinator Week in June. An overwhelming response led to the distribution of 780,000 milkweed seed packets in 2023, an effort ...