However, monarch butterflies face habitat loss and environmental challenges threatening their population. This is where the milkweed plant comes in. It's essential for monarchs because they only lay ...

Monarchs rely on milkweed as the sole host plant for their caterpillars, and without it, their populations struggle to thrive ...

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 ...

Retired teacher Larry Weber, of Barnum, is the author of “Butterflies of the North Woods" and “Spiders of the North Woods," ...

Milkweed is the only host plant of Monarch butterflies, meaning it's the only plant Monarch butterflies will lay eggs on and ...

He is also a California Plains Miwok traditional cultural practitioner. Native tribes of Central California tended milkweed with fire and used the plant’s fibers in feather belts, weaving the fibers ...

Beyond culinary pursuits, saving seeds from a milkweed plant specifically helps support the conservation of the monarch butterfly, imperiled because of a loss of habitat across its range.

Researchers have sequenced the genome of the red milkweed beetle, revealing genetic adaptations that allow it to safely feed ...