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San Antonio classes teach gardeners to grow native milkweed, supporting monarch butterfly migration and population health.
Recently, local monarch enthusiasts have introduced tropical milkweed - a source of food for the butterflies - into their gardens to support the beloved insect's journey. Despite strong messaging ...
Monarch butterflies depend on milkweed and its close relatives to complete their life cycle. The study’s findings suggest that when aphids attack tropical milkweed, they compromise this monarch ...
Tropical milkweed is a harmful plant that can trick both humans and monarch butterflies, and is contributing to declining monarch populations.
Tropical Milkweed is a popular ornamental plant featuring bright orange and yellow flowers. It is often planted in yards to attract the iconic monarch butterfly, which lays its eggs on the ...
Despite some conservationists’ concerns, UC Davis researchers show that tropical milkweed has minimal impact on California monarch butterflies’ migratory patterns.
With its charismatic appearance and awe-inspiring migrations, it's not surprising that the monarch butterfly motivates ...
When oleander aphids infested tropical milkweed, monarch butterflies laid fewer eggs on the plant, and the caterpillars developing on those plants were slower to mature.
Some monarch butterfly researchers are questioning Marin County and other counties’ recent decision to ban tropical milkweed sales as a way to protect the state’s dwindling populations of the ...
The popularity in planting tropical milkweed began in the late-1990s over the concern of the dramatic declines in native milkweeds across the North American spring and summer breeding grounds.
When oleander aphids infested tropical milkweed, monarch butterflies laid fewer eggs on the plant, and the caterpillars developing on those plants were slower to mature.