Some species are more suited than others to act as host plants for specific insects. If you are looking to attract the endangered monarch butterfly, only 30 milkweed species are used by them ...
Milkweed plants, a favorite food of butterfly larvae, grow within and around the edges of cornfields. Several lines of evidence presented at the conference suggest GM corn presents little threat ...
Butterfly enthusiasts are contributing ... Monarch butterflies use only milkweed as the food plant for their larvae. They cannot sustain their existence without it. Many varieties of milkweed ...
For more than 30 years, she has conducted surveys for the North American Butterfly ... to plant caterpillar host plants for other butterflies as well. Essentially, have native milkweed in the ...