Providing beautiful blooms for monarchs not only adds to the beauty of your garden but helps support their population. Here ...

This is the only orange milkweed flower recommended for monarchs in temperate zones because tropical milkweed can disrupt the migration of these pollinators. Chrysanthemum.

This is probably due to the fact that tropical milkweed is evergreen with bright orange and yellow flowers, while native milkweed does not flower nearly as brilliantly and also goes dormant in the ...

The Environment Report is back after a months-long hiatus. So stop putting pesticides on your landscaping. A pesky insect ...

The question for many isn’t whether to grow milkweed, but how -- and which kind. In Connie Day’s Santa Monica garden, a tiger-colored monarch spars with another butterfly, chasing it from a ...

Every fall, people who live in the Upper Peninsula's Delta County keep an eye out for fluttering clouds of orange and black. Sometimes there are a handful of monarch butterflies, stopping for a ...

The green team hopes naming orange milkweed the borough's flower will bring attention to the plant, often the bane of crop farmers, and to the black-and-orange butterfly, which now is being ...

If you think there are fewer monarch butterflies fluttering about, you’re right. Because of a loss of milkweed, there’s been an 80 percent decline of monarch butterflies in the last 20 years ...

Large milkweed bugs (Oncopeltus fasciatus) are oblong-shaped, orange and black sap-sucking true bugs that feed on developing seeds, flowers and nectar. They usually cause only light damage.