After all, the monarch is a backyard butterfly − starting as a caterpillar, it breeds, feeds and rests in the spaces just outside our windows. Planting native milkweed and nectar-rich flowers like ...

Do your part to support declining monarch butterfly populations ... When the eggs hatch, milkweed is the only plant the white, black, and yellow-striped caterpillars will eat.

Try showy, common or swamp milkweed and butterfly weed ... times and becomes nearly 3 inches long. Monarch caterpillars have ...

Climate change and industrial agriculture have decimated the western monarch butterfly’s crucial food source, threatening the ...

Colony estimates at central Mexico overwintering sites indicate that monarch butterfly ... extreme weather conditions in the butterfly's migratory range (central Mexico, United States, and southern ...

Monarch butterflies are important culturally and ecologically across North America. Generations have watched in wonder as yellow-and-black striped caterpillars ... much more slowly than the average ...

Image caption: Whimsical Wings Farms Unveils Patented Shipping Box for Live Milkweed Plants and Monarch Butterfly Lifecycle Kit. The shipping box, co-developed by co-founders Donna Pless and ...

Butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) is one of the tamer milkweeds with lots of ornamental appeal. This adaptable milkweed is hardy in zones 3-10 and was named the 2017 Perennial Plant of the Year.

After all, the monarch is a backyard butterfly − starting as a caterpillar, it breeds, feeds and rests in the spaces just outside our windows. Planting native milkweed and nectar-rich flowers ...

Monarch butterflies are important culturally and ecologically across North America. Generations have watched in wonder as yellow-and-black striped caterpillars ... much more slowly than the average ...